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Did the Clean Air Act unleash Atlantic hurricanes?
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Emerging research theorizes the decline of polluting sulfur-based particles in the atmosphere, which block sunlight and cool the Earth beneath, have allowed Atlantic hurricane activity to increase in recent decades. Could it be our efforts to clean the air have, paradoxically, made it more stormy? One of the great success stories of U.S. environmental policy is the implementation of the Clean Air Act, and the subsequent dramatic decreases in atmospheric pollutants. Concentrations of sulfur...
07.24.13 -- Growing Up In Clean Air Improves Pollution Resistance
2013-07-23 02:16:02| pollutiononline News Articles
07/24/13 Pollution Online Newsletter
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Growing Up In Clean Air Improves Pollution Resistance Says Water And Health Researcher Sharon Kleyne
2013-07-22 03:17:37| pollutiononline News Articles
Growing up in a polluted environment does not improve one’s ability to resist the health effects and diseases of pollution
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Clean Air Power shows dual-fuel retrofitted heavy-duty truck prototype for US market
2013-07-04 20:30:12| Green Car Congress
How the Clean Air Act helped Atlanta's rainfall rebound
2013-07-02 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: Anti-pollution measures enacted in the United States in 1970 likely led to a rebound in rainfall over the city of Atlanta in the 1970s and 1980s, new research shows. Weather stations' measurements showed that average annual rainfall in the city's core increased 10 percent after the Clean Air Act, which focuses on airborne pollutants that pose a risk to human health, passed in 1970. "It suddenly just changed dramatically in the '70s. It wasn't a gradual change. It was pretty abrupt," said Jeremy...
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