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US counties that are designated "nonattainment" for the Clean Air Act's NAAQS, as of September 30, 2017. The U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, pronounced / ˈ n æ k s / naks) are limits on atmospheric concentration of six pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards. [1]
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...
A 2020 paper reported that about half of air pollution and half of the resulting deaths are caused by emissions from outside a given state's boundaries, typically from prevailing winds moving west to east. [9] Regulation of air pollution is a shared responsibility between federal, state, and local governments.
Canadian wildfires are once again taking a toll on the continental U.S., this time in the Midwest, where air quality alerts have been issued across the region. Chicago's air quality ranks among ...
Notes: 1 atm = absolute pressure of 101.325 kPa or 1.01325 bar; mol = gram mole and kmol = 1000 gram moles Pollution regulations in the United States typically reference their pollutant limits to an ambient temperature of 20 to 25 °C as noted above.
A year after federal investigators outlined how Chicago funnels industrial polluters into Black and Latino neighborhoods, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed Monday to overhaul zoning, planning and land ...
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Smog, or smoke fog, is a type of intense air pollution.The word "smog" was coined in the early 20th century, and is a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog [1] to refer to smoky fog due to its opacity, and odour. [2]