Areas of U.S. With Dirtiest Air Named
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The EPA findings will require 20 states and the District to devise strategies to reduce dangerous levels of soot pollution in the air.
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Americans' hands are getting dirtier, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  May 30--Hampton Roads and greater Richmond were officially removed from the national list of smog-troubled regions Tuesday, evidence that air quality is getting cleaner, due mostly to new fuels and pollution-cutting technologies.
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WASHINGTON -- Washington DC, has made the top ten list of most dangerous metropolitan areas in the United States. Camden, NJ, was named to the top spot, overtaking Detroit.
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By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 12--LINFEN, China -- Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.   It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Children with asthma who are exposed to traffic pollution are at increased risk for respiratory problems and reduced lung volumes, says a study that looked at children in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, a crossing point into the United States.
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Wetter Thursdays, drier Saturdays NASA has determined that air pollution provokes wetter weekdays and drier weekends in the southeastern US, with peak rainfall occuring late on Thursdays provoked by increased levels of airborne particles.â¦
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WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that do not meet new clean-air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants: microscopic soot.
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7432 or langhornet@courierpress.com  Covered in mud and their nostrils assaulted by foul odors, about 30 volunteers worked Saturday to clean up a longtime dump site near Pigeon Creek.
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Favorable weather and stricter standards help give the Los Angeles area its cleanest air in 25 years. While the region&#39;s air quality remained the worst in the nation, it was cleaner
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With a little help from good weather, air in the Los Angeles was the cleanest on record this year, regulators said Thursday. Still, the region&#39;s air quality remained the worst
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The fine grit in polluted air boosts the risk of heart disease in older women much more powerfully than scientists realized, a big federally funded study has found, raising questions of whether U.S. environmental standards are strict enough.
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world.
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With a little help from good weather, air in the Los Angeles was the cleanest on record this year, regulators said Thursday.
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By Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald  Dec. 14--A 109-acre wasteland of naked dirt and scrubland in the midst of one of Broward County's poorest ZIP codes makes for a better metaphor than a park.
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LOS ANGELES A new Environmental Protection Agency report says concentrations of dangerous air pollutants have declined in Southern California in the last five years.
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By Jake Batsell, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 21--FRISCO -- Emissions from asphalt and concrete plants in  southeast Frisco don't pose a serious health risk to nearby residents and  elementary school students, according to an air-quality study commissioned by  the city.