particulate matter

Sydney Is Choking on Bushfire Smoke, Poorest Residents Struggling Most

Sydney Is Choking on Bushfire Smoke, Poorest Residents Struggling Most

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 […]

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    Sydney Is Choking on Bushfire Smoke, Poorest Residents Struggling Most

    Sydney Is Choking on Bushfire Smoke, Poorest Residents Struggling Most

    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

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

    Tweeting that the U.S. has the cleanest air in the world does not make it so. Not only do we rank 10th, but a new study says that after steady improvement during the Obama-era, air pollution has gotten worse while Donald Trump has been president. The report issued by the National Bureau of Economic Research […]

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

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

    By Gretchen Goldman The Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel has released their consensus recommendations to the EPA administrator on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter. The group of 20 independent experts, that were disbanded by Administrator Wheeler last October and reconvened last week, hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, has now […]

    Study Links Osteoporosis to Air Pollution

    Study Links Osteoporosis to Air Pollution

    Exposure to air pollution is known to cause a vast array of respiratory health problems, but in a new study, researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health have determined that air pollution can also weaken bones. The paper, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, is the first to document high rates of hospital […]

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

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

    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 […]