Nearly 40% of Americans live where the air is polluted enough to harm them, a new report warns.
In the American Lung Association's “State of the Air” report, released Wednesday, the number of people living with levels of air pollution that could jeopardize their health climbed from about 119 million in 2023 to 131 million now.
“Climate change is causing more dangerous air pollution. Every day that there are unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution means that someone -- a child, grandparent, uncle or mother -- struggles to breathe,” he said. “We must do more to ensure everyone has clean air.” While emissions of outdoor air pollutants have dropped 78% since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, "there still are way too many people
“Our cars are cleaner. Our fuels are cleaner. Most of the dirtiest coal-fired power plants have fortunately been shut down, and industry is cleaner. So that's cleaned up a lot of the traditional sources of pollution in the East, in the more industrial parts of the Upper Midwest and the Northeast,” Pruitt said.extraction that happens in the West has increased, which produces a lot of emissions,” she said. “And they are suffering, first, from the impacts of climate change and wildfire.
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