Cleaner Los Angeles Air? Don't Hold Your Breath
308753
By virtually all measures, the Los Angeles basin, the bowl-shaped home to 17 million air-breathing humans, remains the nation's capital of bad air.
452928
Los Angeles residents were urged on Wednesday to take shorter showers, reduce lawn sprinklers and stop throwing trash in toilets in a bid to cut water usage by 10 percent in the driest year on record.
758437
Ah, October, a time when leaves start turning, the carpet in the Metrodome gets a thorough vacuuming and Dodgers fans usually don't even get a chance to leave games early.
517691
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants an exemption to proposed clean-air rules so that it doesn&#39;t have to replace toxic soot-producing diesel equipment with cleaner-burning models.
734187
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.
627167
LOS ANGELES - Concentrations of one of the most dangerous air pollutants have declined in most of the country in the last five years, especially in Southern California and the Southeast, according to a report released by the US Environmental Protection
725233
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that don't meet new clean air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants &#151; microscopic soot.
174195
A portable sensor array measures air quality to discern the causes of asthma attacks.
459486
People with heart disease may want to steer clear of heavy traffic when exercising or simply take their workout indoors to avoid breathing polluted air.
548631
By Kristopher Hanson, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.  Dec. 19--LONG BEACH -- USC and a state air quality agency are teaming up  to capture and test the origin of tiny pollution particles floating around  harbor communities.
380499
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24 -- In a disaster driven more than anything by wind, the breezes dying across Southern California on Wednesday translated into rising hope.
492966
After Southern California experienced a horrible smog season in 2003, its cool, mild summer helped make this the cleanest smog season in 25 years, officials said Thursday.
394448
Researchers reported that children and teenagers in Southern California communities with higher levels of air pollution were more likely to have diminished lung function.
156611
With a little help from good weather, air in the Los Angeles was the cleanest on record this year, regulators said Thursday.
580286
Air quality in the Los Angeles basin this year has been the best in 25 years, largely because of a fluke in the weather. But by virtually all measures, the region, the
377102
By Paul Burgarino  Representatives from one of the worst air pollution regions in California voted last week to join the state in a possible lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency concerning emissions regulations for newer-model cars.
631729
Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.