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How does the Clean Air Act affect your life?

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 08 December 2010 in Air Quality

How Important Is Clean Air To You? It seemed an easy way to see how important clean air is to my life. Thanks to the marvels of an internet connection and Google, I have several interesting ways to think about this question at my fingertips. The amount of air that I breathe as an a...

Cleanair system said to cut energy costs by up to 25 percent

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 05 October 2010 in Air Quality

According to the University of Copenhagen’s Prof. Matthew Johnson, approximately one-sixth of the energy consumed in the world is used for heating, cooling and dehumidifying air in buildings. Because that air accumulates toxins and pathogens, he explains, it must constantly be expelled and r...

4 Die in Asthma Attack - Is Your City Next?

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 21 August 2010 in Air Quality

Alberta health officials are investigating after four people died due to asthma attacks during a two-week period last month. Two men in their 20s and a man and woman in their early 50s died in the second and third weeks of the month, said Dr. Marcia Johnson, acting medical officer of health with Alb...

Is Russia One Deadly Heat Wave Away From Climate Protection?

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 11 August 2010 in Air Quality

"Practically everything is burning." That's what Russian President Dmitri Medvedev had to say about the results of a massive heat wave that has already left more than 1,000 dead and, according to some estimates, is now killing 700 a day. It took this toll to finally make cli...

Breathing Healthier Air, EPA lowers sulfer dioxide.

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 in Air Quality

Thank goodness, finally after 40 yrs the Environmental Protection Agency, US, issued standards that lower the acceptable levels of sulfur-dioxide emissions and increase the intervals the gas is monitored. With asthma and other respiratory disease on the rise especially in children and the elderly, t...

'Widespread fraud' in California's smog test program

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 in Air Quality

State aims to make major changes after finding that nearly a third of older cars fail roadside smog checks within a year of passing at test stations. February 25, 2010 | By Margot Roosevelt Nearly a third of older-model cars stopped for roadside smog tests in Southern California failed them, despi...

EPA Updates Mobile Source Emissions Model

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 28 December 2009 in Air Quality

The US EPA is the source of most air quality impact assessment models used in the US for regulatory purposes, such as predicting the potential impacts from proposed stationary sources of air pollutants and mobile sources such as motor vehicles. Since motor vehicle emissions vary with regulatory chan...

Atlanta Named Most Toxic U.S. City, Las Vegas is Least Toxic

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 04 November 2009 in Air Quality

By Jonathan Bardelline Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic of 40 major metropolitan areas. Forbes ranked the cities based on the number of Superfund sites in the principal city, number of facilities that ...

Low-level ozone exposure found to be lethal over time

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 11 March 2009 in Air Quality

L.A. Times - An 18-year study shows an increased annual risk of death from respiratory illnesses, depending on the pollution level. It goes beyond studies that linked brief ozone spikes to short-term effects. By Thomas H. Maugh IIMarch 12, 2009 Ozone pollution is a killer, increasing the yearly ri...