particulate matter

Sydney Is Choking on Bushfire Smoke, Poorest Residents Struggling Most

By Jordan Davidson / December 10, 2019

The brushfires raging through New South Wales have shrouded Australia’s largest city in a blanket of smoke that pushed the air quality index 12 times worse than the hazardous threshold, according to the Australia Broadcast Corporation (ABC). Still winds on Tuesday left a stagnant haze over the city so smoky, it set off fire alarms […]

U.S. Air Pollution Is Getting Worse Under Trump, New Study Finds

By Jordan Davidson / October 23, 2019

Disbanded Air Pollution Panel Finds EPA Standards Don’t Protect Public Health

By EcoWatch / October 22, 2019

Study Links Osteoporosis to Air Pollution

By EcoWatch / November 13, 2017

Groups Challenge EPA’s Air Pollution Discharge Permits for Shell’s Arctic Drillships

By EcoWatch / February 21, 2012

U.S. EPA Sued for Failure to Issue Air Pollution Standards

By EcoWatch / February 14, 2012

Earthjustice The American Lung Association and the National Parks Conservation Association filed a federal lawsuit on Feb. 14 to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to complete the required review of the need for stronger limits on the amount of soot, smoke and other airborne particles that endanger public health. Airborne particulate matter is […]