Tag Archives: Los Angeles

Drought linked to polluted winter air

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

California’s parched winter brought a big surge in air pollution, pushing the number of bad air days one-third higher than the previous winter and posing a serious health threat, state air quality officials said Tuesday. Levels of haze-forming soot typically … Continue reading →

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Air Pollution: It’s Complicated, But It’s Still About Environmental Justice 

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Many recent studies have shown that air pollution levels and income levels are linked. Poorer communities suffer from bad air more than wealthy communities. A recent study by UCLA researchers revealed some complications in this correlation, but found that air … Continue reading →

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Air Quality Monitors To Be Installed To Measure Vehicle Pollution On SoCal Freeways

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Federal regulators will install four monitors to test air pollution levels near freeways in Southern California and study the impact of vehicle exhaust. KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports the tests could shed light on potential health risks to an estimated … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles air pollution drops after tailpipe laws

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Los Angeles air pollution – and its infamous eye sting – have declined due to California’s strict vehicle emission controls, scientists have said. Despite a three-fold rise in the number of vehicles on southern California roads since 1960, air pollution … Continue reading →

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Air pollution can worsen any pre-existing lung condition

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

High levels of air pollution can increase asthma, respiratory infections, lung cancer and even death, and heat makes it worse, a U.S. researcher says. Dr. Jonathan Weissler, director of the James M. Collins Center for Biomedical Research at the University … Continue reading →

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Pollution plumes in Paris air are richer in gaseous aromatic compounds than in Los Angeles

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

What is the origin of the volatile hydrocarbons, other than methane, present in city air? Mainly gasoline-powered vehicles[1], according to a study carried out by a French-US team[2] including French researchers from the Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA/IPSL[3], CNRS … Continue reading →

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Freeway air pollution travels farther in early morning

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Respro® UK Ltd

Two years ago researchers outfitted an electric Toyota RAV4 with a set of test instruments and drove back and forth near four Los Angeles County freeways between 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., sampling the air. The results confirmed that in … Continue reading →

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Air quality agency issues Southland no-burn alert

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Respro® UK Ltd

Much of Los Angeles is being asked to hold off lighting wood-burning fireplaces or open pits starting at midnight Saturday and continuing for 24 hours to avoid releasing unhealthy soot that becomes trapped in the air by a wintertime weather … Continue reading →

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