Indoor Air Pollutiuon Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it
Indoor Air Pollution Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it How is the Air Quality in your Home?
Indoor air pollution has been described by the EPA and Congress as America’s number one environmental health problem and indoor air pollution can be four to five times worse than outdoor air and even greater. The Department of Consumer Affairs states that children and the elderly are the ones most affected by polluted indoor air.
We spend about 90% of our time indoors and all this gets breathed into us and our children. Air pollutants can and do cause allergies, sick building syndrome, bacterial infections and spread viruses to name a few. The American College of Allergists state that 50% of all illnesses are caused by polluted indoor air. They state that 10 to 12 million people in the US suffer from asthma and that asthma is the single largest cause of hospital visits by children. Continue Reading Indoor Air Pollutiuon Facts: What is Indoor Air Pollution and How to Reduce it Here
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Environmental Policy What is an Environmental Policy and What We Need To Focus On
Environmental Policy - Expect More - Do More
It is useful for us to consider that environmental policy comprises two major terms: environment and policy. Environment primarily refers to the ecological dimension (ecosystems), but can also take account of the social dimension, or quality of life, and as an economic dimension correlating to resource management. The term policy can be defined as a course of action or principle adopted or proposed by a government, party, business or individual. That leaves us with the combined definition that an environmental policy focuses on problems arising from human impact on the environment, which retro-acts onto human society by having a negative impact on human values such as good health or a healthy, robust environment.
Environmental issues which are typically addressed by standard environmental policies include (but are not limited to) air and water pollution, waste management, ecosystem management, biodiversity protection, and the protection of natural resources, wildlife and endangered species. More recently however, environmental policy has expanded into the communication of environmental issues. Continue Reading Environmental Policy What is an Environmental Policy and What We Need To Focus On Here
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Most Polluted Cities in America List 2011
Most Polluted Cities in America List 2011 #1 Bakersfield, Ca
The most polluted cities in America list for 2011 called the State of the Air 2011and it shows that overall air quality has improved in many places, but there are still over 154 million people, or over half of the citizens of America still are affected by dangerous pollution levels. This unhealthy air puts these people’s health at serious risk. Since the Clean Air Act of 1970 we have reduced the air pollution threat, but the threat still lingers, and now some want to cut back on our clean air in the name of progress and growth, which is a bunch of garbage. I imagine that they don’t have to breath the air and have the money and free health insurance provided by us in case they do become ill from breathing poisonous air.
The State of the Air 2011 report looks at levels of ozone and particle pollution found in official monitoring sites across the United States in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The report uses the most current quality-assured nationwide data available for these analyses to determine the most polluted cities in America.
For particle pollution, the report examines fine particulate matter (PM) in two different ways: averaged year-round (annual average) and over short-term levels (24-hour). For both ozone and short-term particle pollution, the analysis uses a weighted average number of days that allows recognition of places with higher levels of pollution. For the year-round particle pollution rankings, the report uses averages calculated and reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For comparison, the State of the Air 2010 report for the most polluted cities in America covered data from 2006, 2007 and 2008. Continue Reading Most Polluted Cities in America List 2011 Here
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