Air Pollution In Rockingham County

Air pollution is associated with a wide range of health risks, including respiratory problems, allergies, cancer, lead poisoning, and others. Marion County is in compliance with air quality standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, particulates, and lead.

The purpose of this paper is to assess the town of Lusby, Maryland to determine any environmental concerns that could be a potential or real health risk to the community. A windshield survey was conducted by driving around the town to assess the environment, including air, water, and land. The location and surroundings, including manmade and natural, were identified and taken into consideration during the driving tour. Also assessed where the people themselves by observing community vitality and general appearance, social and economic conditions, health resources, social functioning, and attitudes toward health. Insufficiencies will be identified and diagnosed to help the community thrive to maintain or improve health.

The next piece of evidence showing environmental determinants to health is the air samples taken from the African American community’s residents. Moreover, the air samples taken from the Norco residents living close to the refinery show higher levels of toluidine and benzene, known cancer and disease causing chemicals, than averages from the rest

The city of Pekin has a history of very dangerous and unhealthy levels of air pollution caused by power plants and ethanol manufactures. “The Pekin area has the highest level of sulfur dioxide air pollution in the state, according to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), a level that now exceeds tightened federal standards” (Pekin has worst sulfur dioxide air pollution in state, 2011). This environmental issue has had great health effects on the Pekin community because of the mass quantity of sulfur dioxide pollutants in the air. “Exposure to sulfur dioxide, which is released when fossil fuels like coal and oil are burned, causes respiratory problems for children, the elderly and those with asthma or other respiratory illnesses, according to the IEPA. It narrows airways, leading to difficulty breathing” (Pekin has worst sulfur dioxide air pollution in state, 2011). The health problems that sulfur dioxide cause is detrimental to the health of the citizens in the city of

There are two main types of air pollution, particulate matter (PM) and ozone. Particulate matter is some tiny dust. For example, according to a beam of light at night there are countless dusts floating in the air. They are particle. Ozone is an invisible chemical gas in the air. When these gas touch with light will become smog. Factory and vehicles exhaust emissions have become the largest cause of PM and ozone pollution in the United States. If a plant wants to run, they need to burn fuel to provide power; however, a lot of particulate matter will float in the air when the factory burns fuel. When people drive cars can

This research will contain a few limitations. The first will be that it will be impossible to survey the entire United States so just a selected area of places in the most 5 polluted areas in the U.S. will be surveyed. Second, there is a possibility that accurate answers will not be obtained because the participants will not be completely honest in answering the questions. To decrease this issue, we will inform each participant that the survey is confidential and no information will be released to anyone outside of the study. (Perfect!).

The author Crystal Gammon is concerned about how pollution can affect people who remains on a penniless income in East St. Louis. Residence living in East St. Louis and children is having asthma. Seeing that pollution is taking place in the city, asthma rates have been increasing significantly.

I am originally from a small rural community in Ohio, which has poor regulation of the air and water quality which humans depend on to sustain life.

>Among all the factors that are attributed to population health, the environment is perhaps the greatest. It is common knowledge in public health that if the physical environment is unhealthy, so is the population that live there. Even though the many of the environmental issues are being addressed by the State and County authorities, Clayton County is experiencing a slow rate of change. While the air pollution-particulate matter is declining, it is currently at 13.2, which is higher than the national average of 9.5, and the 12.8 for the state’s average.2 In addition, this county has drinking water violations and severe housing problems. As a result of these and other environmental issues, Clayton County ended up with a county ranking of 159 out of 159.1 This is not a good thing for the population of Clayton County.

Anderson County Tennessee, in 2002, this county ranked among the dirtiest/worst 10% of all counties in the U.S. in terms of total environmental releases (Scorecard). In fact the only true competitors are major counties far more densely populated. Furthermore, it critical to state that Anderson County, ranks poorly among all three categories examined, such as small- particulate, air, and water. With some of the worst offenders being lead, diesel, and arsenic, all three of which pose a substantial risk to individuals health. Examining, these issues are imperative both to discover what the risks to a population are and what could be done to lessen the hazards.

Why I chose this issue: I currently live in an area of New Mexico that is heavily affected by air and water pollution (this is mainly

There are pollutants that effect our environment from many different sources from industry to everyday people in New Jersey these toxins show up in three ways air, water, and ground. New Jersey residents share in protecting our air, the toxins in our air over time can have an adverse effect on our overall health. The most immediate impact from pollution comes by way of our water supply the cornerstone of life itself New Jersey has made great strides to our water since the 1970’s when we started to understand the grave mistakes made by our lack of oversight when it came to our water. Not to be ignored is ground pollution which many industries have ignored by simply burying the problem it interns goes away not considering the life cycle that surrounds us every day. Pollution in New Jersey has been our calling card since I was a kid toxic fumes from our ports let you know you have entered an

Air pollution is an issue that can plague an area or a country as a whole for many different reasons and can be caused by many different things. Areas that are in valleys can suffer from terrible air pollution due to the pollution not having anywhere to go. The Merrimack County area of New Hampshire is an area that sits in the middle of the lower half of the state; sitting between mountains to the west, east, and north of the county. Funneling through the county is the Merrimack River that creates a valley that traps any lower lying air pollutants from getting out the area. Due to the area being in a valley, that does not allow for natural wind currents to take the polluted air and disperse it to other places.

Pollution in Redbridge needs to be addressed said the local resident- as theres a harmful amount of air pollutants in the redbridge area which is produced by vehicles.

According to the EPA (n.d.), the air quality index for the Maytown area is currently listed as “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” AQI is 101-150, which is not likely to affect the general population. However, for a small number of individuals with sensitivities to air pollutions there may be a moderate health concern for experiencing respiratory symptoms. Corresponding 2008 CDC data lists the annual average concentration of PM2.5 in Lancaster County at 15.0 (µg/m3), which is significantly high. The concern is for long-term damage to respiratory and cardiovascular systems and even cancer and birth defects from the exposure. Lancaster County is higher than the US median of 10.7 (µg/m3), (CHSI, 2008).