Breezometer

APRIL 12, 2022

300 annual traffic accidents threatened to overtake Central Park’s serene quality, driving New York City officials in 2015 to ‘return the park to the people’ and begin closing down some of the main roads. But a major threat still remains – NYC air pollution. Car Pollution: How Does Traffic Contribute to Air Pollution?

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Air Pollution Carbon Monoxide 2015 Ocean 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8

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