WHO calls for improved air quality
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The World Health Organization on Thursday called on governments to improve air quality in their cities, saying air pollution prematurely kills two million people a year, with more than half the deaths in developing countries.
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Ohio is among five states teaming up with the federal government to provide asthmatics with air quality data - via cell phone, pager or e-mail- that they may need to plan their day and protect their health.
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BAD AIR: The government says 223 counties in 20 states and the District of Columbia flunk new air quality health standards because of airborne soot.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce today that current federal standards for limiting harmful ozone air pollution do not adequately protect the public and need to be strengthened.
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The U.S. government approved new air   pollution standards on Thursday, promising "cleaner air to all   Americans," but health and environmental groups said the   revised rules are too weak to protect against lung disease and   other pollution-related ailments.
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Care for people with chronic disease must be improved, a manifesto published by leading health organisations says
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World Health Organisation urges governments to act now to dramatically reduce tobacco use
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that current smog standards don't sufficiently protect public health and proposed tightening them for the first time in a decade.
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WASHINGTON -- Breathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers' day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks.
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Astana. November 10. KAZINFORM. Medical chiefs have urged Scottish ministers to take the lead in the UK and ban smoking in public places.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  May 26--The federal Environmental Protection Agency continues to press the state over last-minute changes that appear to weaken an ozone clean-up for Dallas-Fort Worth.
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The World Health Organization (WHO)and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) marked World Rural Women&#39;s Day on Friday by drawing attention to indoor air pollution.
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Campaigners call for "noise maps" to deal with noise pollution from roads, railways and flight paths.
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CHICAGO _ Even as cities and states show progress in ridding the skies of smog, the federal government declared Thursday that much of the nation's air is too dirty to breathe safely.  New rules proposed by the U.S.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Jun. 22--Promoting economic development through better smog controls is likely to get a lot harder for Toledo and other metropolitan areas.   The U.S.
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Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.
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Air pollution levels in the UK are too high to meet key objectives and may harm human health, an expert tells the BA science festival.