Ann Carlson’s Smog and Sunshine traces how Los Angeles tackled pollution and transformed its air quality over decades ...
I remember my eyes stinging and my lungs burning [from smog]," UCLA environmental law professor Ann Carlson writes in ‘Smog ...
A motorcyclist in Los Angeles prepares to turn while driving along a street engulfed in a thick haze combined by fog and smog in 1958.Bettmann / Getty For much of its history, the city of stars could ...
Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is one of Europe’s most polluted countries, and a flagship national program to clean the air and ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Dense toxic smog blanketed India’s capital on Monday, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks, disrupting travel and causing authorities to impose the strictest ...
The move comes as a relief to the state’s air quality managers, who have scrambled to find ways to reel in emissions or risk ...
A large-scale study of 27.8 million US Medicare beneficiaries has found that long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) directly increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani authorities are using anti-smog guns in the eastern city of Lahore for the first time this winter in a bid to combat hazardous air pollution, officials said Thursday.