California Air Pollution

Mother Earth Wants You To Drive 55: Could Highway Limits Reduce Pollution?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.27.2012

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California state law requires that the Bay Area reduce its overall level of air pollution 15 percent by 2035. Precisely how local officials are going ...

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Report Reveals Blue Skies For California

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Posted 04.20.2012

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This story comes courtes of California Watch. By Bernice Yeung California air pollution reached unhealthy levels less often in 2011 than a decad...

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Record Air Pollution Slams California's Ag Heartland

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 03.08.2012

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FRESNO, Calif. — This is the time of year when residents who often live with the nation's worst pollution often can draw a breath of fresh air. ...

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A Better Path To Clean Energy?

| Susanne Rust | Posted 09.10.2011

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This story comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Susanne Rust As governments try to figure out the best way to get carbon polluters to in...

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Emission Trading Credits Approved By Anti-Smog Agency

AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Southern California's anti-smog agency overwhelmingly approved a controversial plan Friday allowing companies to pollute by purcha...

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AB 32 Opponents Vulnerable on Pollution's Health Hazards

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Opponents of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gases in California to 1990 levels by 2020 are asking us to put short-term economic interests ahead of people's health and safety.

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Study: Living Near Freeways Sharply Increases Health Risks

latimes.com | Margot Roosevelt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Los Angeles residents living near freeways experience a hardening of the arteries that leads to heart disease and strokes at twice the rate of those w...

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Breast Cancer Risk and the Dirty Air We Breathe

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are also over 200 chemicals in air pollution -- called PAHs -- that may also lead to cancer, including cancer of the breast.

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What Dangerous Particles Did LA Residents Breathe During The Fires?

LA Times | Bettina Boxall | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Los Angeles times reports on some Californians' worst fears -- that the wildfires put something bad in the air: It was full of tiny particles -- ...

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California Air Pollution Kills More People Than Car Crashes, Study Shows

AP | TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.25.2011

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FRESNO, Calif. — Lowering air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor v...

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White House Nixed California's Tougher Air Quality Standards

McClatchy Newspapers | Renee Schoof | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Environmental Protection Agency told the Bush administration that by law California should be able to set air-quality standards that were tougher ...

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