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Contra Costa, Santa Clara and San Francisco counties get F grade ...
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - May 1, 2008
The Lung Association said motor vehicles and wood fires in fireplaces are partly to blame for the dirty air. Fine particulates can trigger asthma attacks ...
Deadly cocktail: Only you can prevent air pollution Salt Lake Tribune
Lung Assn. rates Bay Area's air quality San Francisco Chronicle
Progress in California on Air Quality Despite National No Lung ... California Progress Report
Monterey County Herald - McKeesport Daily News
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Environment News Service
Pittsburgh Diesel Trash Trucks Upgraded for Cleaner Air
Environment News Service - Apr 30, 2008
This will show how our regional collaborative can help reduce fine particle pollution," said Susan Wierman, executive director of Mid-Atlantic Regional Air ...
Air regulators approve cleanup plan: Approval by 8-3 vote should ...
Trading Markets (press release), CA - May 1, 2008
Clean air advocates who spoke during a public hearing before the vote criticized the air district for not including stricter measures in the cleanup plan. ...
Air board OKs new plan Fresno Bee (subscription)
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IFAT 2008 ? Clean-air technology is booming
Envirodesk, Belgium - May 4, 2008
Thanks to continuing advances in extraction technology, for example, fine-particle emissions from industrial processes in Germany have fallen since 1990 to ...

American Chronicle
Automobile Air Fresheners Produce Harmful Gases in Your Vehicle
American Chronicle, CA - May 5, 2008
... clean is in and air fresheners are out. Lamorena RB, Lee W. Influence of ozone concentration and temperature on ultra-fine particle and gaseous volatile ...
Construction begins on new coke plant in Illinois
Houston Chronicle, United States - May 6, 2008
Two environmental groups, the Sierra Club and the American Bottom Conservancy, have agreed not to legally challenge the air pollution permits issued for the ...
EU backs plan to clean up air, cut lung disease
ChristianToday, UK - Apr 14, 2008
The new directive on air quality addresses this concern by providing ambitious but realistic standards for fine particle ... pollution in the European Union ...
Cooperation needed on China's dirty air
The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Apr 23, 2008
Clean air and water are integral to maintaining human health and ensuring food production. In this respect, international cooperation to monitor and observe ...
Beavercreek buses to cut down on pollution
Xenia Gazette, OH - May 9, 2008
The grant comes from the Ohio EPA?s Clean Diesel School Bus Fund, which was created in 2006 to help school districts improve air quality, especially in ...
Air Quality Awareness Week, April 28 to May 2
Media Newswire (press release), NY - Apr 29, 2008
As part of Air Quality Awareness Week, DES and Breathe NH are sponsoring a Clean Air Hike up Pack Monadnock on April 30 for teachers and eighth graders from ...
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Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution -
CA Pope III, RT Burnett, MJ Thun, EE Calle, D … - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2002 - jama.waldenu.edu
... Figure 4 presents fine particle air pollution?related mortality RR ratios after
stratifying by age, sex, education, and smoking status, and adjusting for all ...
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Air pollution and life expectancy: is there a relation? -
B Brunekreef - Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1997 - pt.wkhealth.com
... This affects the number of survivors in the "clean air" category, and for
simplification it has been assumed that the effect of fine particles only starts ...

Effects of Ultrafine and Fine Particles in Urban Air on Peak Expiratory Flow among Children with … -
J Pekkanen, KL Timonen, J Ruuskanen, A Reponen, A … - Environmental Research, 1997 - Elsevier
Page 1. Effects of Ultrafine and Fine Particles in Urban Air on Peak Expiratory
Flow among Children with Asthmatic Symptoms 1 Juha ...

Elderly humans exposed to concentrated air pollution particles have decreased heart rate variability -
RB Devlin, AJ Ghio, H Kehrl, G Sanders, W Cascio - European Respiratory Journal, 2003 - Eur Respiratory Soc
... Environmental Protection Agency Ambient Fine Particle Concentrator ... 2.5 in the Chapel
Hill air (which usually ... by exposing subjects to clean air without particles ...

Ultrafine particles in the urban air: to the respiratory tract-and beyond -
G Oberdorster, MJ Utell - Environ Health Perspect, 2002 - JSTOR
... technologies based on the assumption that they result in clean- er air with fewer ...
they contribute minimally to the mass out- put of fine particles (Figure 1 ...

Ambient air analysis with dichotomous sampler and x-ray fluorescence spectrometer
TG Dzubay, RK Stevens - Environmental Science & Technology, 1975 - pubs.acs.org
... values on Figure 4 by the air volume sampled ... a stored clean filter background spectrum
were compared ... within the filter media for fine particles that penetrate ...

The Indian Ocean Experiment: Widespread Air Pollution from South and Southeast Asia -
J Lelieveld, PJ Crutzen, V Ramanathan, MO Andreae, … - Science, 2001 - sciencemag.org
... be contrasted against comparatively clean air over the ... to 2-week boundary layer air
mass trajectories ... and chemical composition of fine particles, collected on ...

Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases -
F Dominici, RD Peng, ML Bell, L Pham, A McDermott, … - JAMA, 2006 - Am Med Assoc
... There was substantial homogeneity of fine particulate matter ... identifying those
characteristics of particles that determine ... Under the Clean Air Act, 53 the EPA ...

Valuing the health benefits of clean air -
JV Hall, AM Winer, MT Kleinman, FW Lurmann, V … - Science, 1992 - sciencemag.org
... Valuing the Health Benefits of Clean Air JANE V. HALL, ARTHUR M. WINER, MICHAEL
T. KLEINMAN, FREDERICK W. LURMANN, VICTOR BRAJER, STEVEN D. COLOME ...

Urban Air Pollution: State of the Science -
JH Seinfeld - Science, 1989 - sciencemag.org
Page 1. Urban Air Pollution: State of the Science ... Urban air pollution is comprised
of a highly complex mixture of gaseous and particulate components. ...

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Clean Air Advocates Challenge EPA's Lax Rule For State Plans To Clean Up Fine Particle Pollution, USA
Public health and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's April 2007 regulations governing how states must conduct air quality planning to reduce fine particle pollution. Clean air advocates argue that the EPA's requirements are much weaker than those mandated in the Clean Air Act and would allow life-threatening levels of air pollution to continue years longer than legally allowed.

At issue are the rules the states must follow to clean up fine particle air pollution, one of the most widespread outdoor air pollutants and one that the EPA acknowledges kills thousands of people each year. The federal Clean Air Act requires EPA to set national air quality standards but then requires states to adopt the measures and strategies that will be used to ensure polluted areas are cleaned up to meet those standards.
The EPA rule outlines the requirements states must meet in adopting these air quality plans to reduce fine particle pollution. The problem with the rule, according to clean air advocates, is that the requirements in EPA's rule do not match those in the Clean Air Act.

"EPA is trying to kill the Clean Air Act with a thousand cuts. This rule follows a now familiar pattern of sidestepping, reinterpreting or just plain ignoring the Clean Air Act in ways that only those steeped in these issues could decipher," said Paul Cort of Earthjustice who is representing the coalition of groups. "The end result, however, is a scheme that allows polluters to keep polluting and clean air to be postponed indefinitely."

"Not only does fine particle pollution shorten lives, but research confirms that breathing particle pollution causes asthma attacks, heart attacks, and strokes, and sends people to the hospital," said Janice Nolen, assistant vice-president for the American Lung Association. "Fine particle pollution from power plants, industrial agriculture operations and other sources poses a significant health threat for some of the most vulnerable people in our community. Children, adolescents, seniors, people with asthma and chronic lung diseases, people with chronic heart disease and diabetics are most at risk."

One of the more egregious decisions is to allow states to avoid placing controls on sources such as mega dairy farms and other industrial agricultural sources that emit ammonia. Ammonia reacts with other pollutants to form fine particles that are harmful to breathe. EPA has nonetheless concluded that states do not need to control or even evaluate the pollution associated with ammonia emissions. "This is a giveaway to Big Agriculture, pure and simple," Cort added.

Advocates also object to EPA's treatment of coal-fired power plants in the eastern U.S. In 2005, EPA adopted a trading scheme to address pollution from these sources. EPA's new rule tells states that their air quality plans should not include more stringent controls on those plants participating in EPA's trading program.

"Under EPA's scheme, a power plant located in a polluted area could have zero pollution controls and EPA would still have the state conclude that nothing more needs to be done. This is just another example of the Bush Administration's willingness to sacrifice public health in order to help its friends in the energy industry," said Erin Chalmers, an attorney for the Sierra Club.


Attorneys from Earthjustice are representing the American Lung Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, and Medical Advocates for Healthy Air in this action.

Read a copy of the Petition for Review.

About the American Lung Association

For more than 100 years, the American Lung Association has been the leading organization working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. Lung disease death rates continue to increase while other leading causes of death have declined. The American Lung Association funds vital research on the causes of and treatments for lung disease. With the generous support of the public, the American Lung Association is "Improving life, one breath at a time." For more information about the American Lung Association or to support the work it does, call 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872) or log on to http://www.lungusa.org
 
 
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