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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. The Central Valley is exceptional in another way as well: it records some of the worst air quality in the country, and the health of this region affects us all.

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Air Pollution & Climate Change: Global Phenomena, Individual Consequences

Breezometer

As COP26 gets underway this week in Glasgow, Scotland and the World Meteorological Association warns that the past seven years are set to be the warmest on record, we thought this the right time to explore the associated impacts of climate change on the air we breathe. a harmful pollutant. Allergy Sufferers.

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The State of the Air in 2024? Not Great

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since its inception, the report has effectively heightened the awareness of some hazardous air pollutants, and engaged the public, media, advocates, and policymakers in the ongoing fight against air pollution. The air quality for this report was calculated using data reviewed by EPA from 2020, 2021, and 2022.

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Centering Public Health at the UN Climate Talks

Legal Planet

With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 pollution reached 155 micrograms per cubic unit. Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. I was wrong.

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Summer Air Pollution Trends: Factors Affecting Air Quality

Breezometer

California's summer of 2021 has seen record-breaking wildfire outbreaks, surpassing 2020 by over 500 fire events by mid-July. Over the period of 2020 and 2021, California has also experienced its two largest wildfires ever , the Dixie and August Complex fires. Levels of Ground-level Ozone Pollution Can Increase in Summer.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

GW record from 2021. In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data. NO x also contributes to the formation of ozone (or “smog”), another toxic pollutant.

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Policy News: June 14, 2021

ESA

Nobel Prize recipients urge G7 leaders to take transformative action to address climate change. The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021.

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