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Asthma Cases Increase as Cities Continue Ignore Federal Ozone Standard
2014-07-11 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: "The majority of people living in Dallas, TX, have never breathed legally clean air, according to the Environmental Protection Agency." That shocking truth is from Cherelle Blazer, a Dallas resident and environmental scientist. She`s referring to the ground-level ozone (or smog) levels in Dallas. Ground-level ozone robs hundreds of thousands of Americans with asthma and other respiratory ailments of quality of life. It sends thousands of children to emergency rooms each year and costs us billions...
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API: 94 Percent Of U.S. Closed For Business Under New Ozone Standards
2014-06-03 10:14:11| oilandgasonline Home Page
Nearly the entire country would be “closed for business” if EPA further tightens Ozone NAAQS standards in its upcoming proposal, API director of Regulatory and Scientific Policy Howard Feldman said in a conference call with reporters recently.
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Colorado Medical Waste Opens New Unit Featuring Ozone Processor
2014-05-19 15:01:00| Waste Age
Colorado Medical Waste Inc. has opened a new facility that features a new technology processing medical waste using ozone. read more
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Ozone Rise Will Choke U.S. Cities
2014-05-18 09:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Stand by for long, hot North American summers of smarting eyes, tickling throats, asthma, bronchitis and emphysema. And crops could also suffer, because ground-level ozone pollution is likely to increase in the US. Gabriele Pfister, an atmospheric scientist at the US National Center for Atmosphere Research in Colorado, and research colleagues report in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres that Americans face a rise of 70% in summertime ozone levels by 2050. Ozone is a form of oxygen...
Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors
2014-05-05 21:30:24| Green Car Congress
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