Environmental Pollution In The United States

Khazan first begins the article by sharing with the readers her childhood experience growing up in the industrial city of Los Angeles. She reported that nine percent of the asthma cases at her school were due to the intensity of traffic fumes produced by the five-hundred trucks per hour passing her elementary school campus. She continues on to say that air pollution is not just a contributor to asthma, but to many other medical issues. Although these statistics are not directly correlated to affecting a child's intelligence, it can be assumed that constant inhalation of toxic fumes can not be good for brain development.

Louis. When living in a hard up income area there is always a tightly packed space between older automobiles, busses, and trucks. This destroyed the ozone, which would bring about cardiovascular problems such as asthma attacks. In the article Gammon states that "In Southern California communities , exposure through air pollution and traffic emissions stunts children's lung growth ,according to USC research " This hints that if a child happens to live nearby or is nearby a polluted area he or she is unprotected and is exposed to having

Pollution continues to pose an enormous threat to residents of urban cities worldwide. In the August 2008 Monthly Update, it is stated that approximately 800,000 deaths each year can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, making pollution the single most harmful environmental hazard to human health in urban areas (Kallman). The fact that pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people each year alone portrays just how dangerous living in these conditions can be. Kallman writes about a study which proves an increase in upper respiratory diseases, cardiovascular mortality, respiratory mortality, and low birth weights when exposed to air pollutants (August 2008: Monthly Update). These can be very serious diseases and complications which, when contracted, can lead to death or very serious illnesses. There

The primary health issues that come with the impact of air pollution are asthma, cardiovascular illnesses and premature mortality. These health issues are due to pollution and the poor air quality such as ozone. Thus, human health becomes a concern and issue. The individuals who are usually more vulnerable to such illnesses are the children and elderly. For example, there’s approximately 162,438 children under the age of and 258,586 adults aged 65 years and older in Riverside county that are prone to environmental health illnesses (cdph). According to UCLA institute of the Environment and Sustainability,

Air pollution is the dispersion of particulates, biological molecules, or other harmful materials into the atmosphere, causing diseases, allergies and death to humans, damage to other living organisms such as animals and food crops or the natural or built environments (Brunekreef & Holgate, 2002; Nowak, Crane, & Stevens, 2006). Polluted air directly or indirectly may cause or be attributed to an increase in fatality or serious unwellness and decline humans state of health (Kampa & Castanas, 2008). For example, in Canada, the Ontario Medical Association has attributed 9500 premature deaths per year and evaluates increased costs of health care ($506.64 M) and missed productivity ($374.18) as a result of air pollution (Rowe, 2011). Thus, employment

The Clean Air Act (CAA) has impacted every single person’s health in the United States—luckily for the good. Without the CAA, companies would have no restrictions on what they could or could not release into the air. If companies continued to do pollute the air without any concern, then there would be major impact on people’s health nationwide. For children, the risks of air pollution are much greater than adults. Children tend to spend more time outside which exposes them to more air pollution. Children also tend to breathe through their mouths, which allows air toxins to go directly to the lungs. If young children are exposed to major air pollution, they are prone to have undeveloped lungs and

These pollutants are characterized as air toxics, which include lead, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and a variety of other chemicals. The impact of air pollution could be very serious to both the heath condition of the population, which could by extension affects the economy of the impacted community. However, this impact is directly related to the amount of pollution in the air. Health consequences from air pollution could range from eye irritation, brain and nerve damage, runny nose, cancer, heart and

Children growing into adults have been breathing polluted air for

What about children’s lungs? Nitrogen oxides, which are emitted from smokestacks, are known to irritate the respiratory tract. They also react with other pollutants to produce ozone, which is a key component of smog. And hazy, smoggy, ozone-filled air is just terrible for kids with asthma. There is particulate matter, especially the tiny particles with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometers, which studies show can trigger asthma attacks. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to breathe through their mouths, which means less filtering of pollutants by nose hair; they tend to hang out more outside, where levels of these pollutants are usually higher; and they run around a lot, which means they take in more nasty stuff and inhale it deep into their

Child asthma hospitalization rates and air pollution for Chicago’s community areas are very correlated to one another. Research has found that children are more susceptible to asthma attacks than adults. Also, children that don’t have asthma and are exposited to air pollution can actually develop it. In the ArcMap exercise, we analyze child asthma hospitalization rates and the relationship it has with air pollution in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County has been has lower ozone standards than normal air standards. This is a direct result of Chicago being a very industrialized city. The amount of Emission Tonnage by Facility in 2002 shows how there are more child asthma hospitalization rates when there is greater emission tonnage. The poorest

A controversy issue in the United States is whether or not we should be involved in the controlling international pollution. Pollution is problem world-wide. Many would like to be involved in pollution while others would not. I believe that the United States should not be involved in the controlling of international pollution.

Evidence suggests a role for particles and other traffic-related components in particular (Chiu et al, 2014). Exposure to environmental toxicants, such as air pollution starting in utero, couple potentially alter course of lung growth and affect both the structure and function of the respiratory system. Studies link prenatal air pollution exposure, including fine particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, with wheeze, respiratory tract infections, and reduced lung function in

The purpose of this study was to investigate the link between traffic related air pollution and childhood incident asthma in southern California. They hypothesized that children’s exposure to traffic related pollution at school and home both contribute to the risk of new onset asthma. This was a cohort study in which the subjects were enrolled in the Children’s Healthy Study (CHS) from forty-five different schools in thirteen different communities and were followed for several years. Initially 5,349 children that were in kindergarten and first grade were enrolled in a new CHS Cohort. The communities that were included were selected to represent a range of the regional particulate pollutants, nitrogen dioxides, and ozone in Southern California. Excluded from the study were children with a history of physician-diagnosed asthma at

There are various evidences from school showing different environmental conditions that tend to be closely associated with incidences of objectively measurable adverse health effects and it is rapidly escalating. The problem of indoor air quality may cause increased absenteeism due to adverse reactions to chemicals used in schools, allergic reactions from biological contaminants, or respiratory infections. These encountered pollution factors, which are mostly consistently associated with respiratory health effects, are always: presence of water damage, microbiological and moisture pollutants. They can also be combustion products such as nitrogen dioxide, animal and other biological allergens, low ventilation rates, chemicals among others. As a result of poor indoor air quality, the overall performance of children go down as they regularly fall sick or absenting themselves from school, (Department of Health, 2011). When associated health effect increase to build up,

Air pollution has affected millions of people in some way. There are cities where air pollution is not a problem but there are cities where air pollution is a big problem. South Bronx in the 2000s faces critical high levels of air pollution. Children were the ones who suffer the most. Every day many kids were hospitalized because of asthma. One of the main causes of air pollution in South Bronx were thousands of trucks traffic on the highways. The carbon dioxide that the truck release into the air cause high air pollution levels. Air pollution in the South Bronx last decade was life-threatening for children with asthma due to truck traffic.