Riverside County: A Case Study

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 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

Judge Nelson’s retirement in Berrien County has created a vacancy that you will have to fill over the next few months. I would like to personally recommend Stephen Smith, J.D. for the position. He is an excellent and well-qualified candidate who has served as a lawyer both in the Washington D.C. area and the Berrien County area for almost two decades. Furthermore, he has many prestigious accomplishments, including graduating magna cum laude, and being recognized as one of the top construction attorneys in the Washington D.C. area, which is no easy feat.

California’s Central Valley includes the cities of Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield, Modesto, Stockton, Vacaville, and Yuba City. It covers approximately 20,000 square miles while being enclosed by mountains. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2011) The Central Valley experiences hot summers with temperatures that reach 110 degrees and winters that get as cold as 30 degrees. Being that mountains fence the Valley, we are the central target for pollutants to travel to. (Berg, 2011) A decade ago, we were

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

Living in a place with bad air quality is a risk to everyone, but there are people with significantly higher instability. People with pre-existing maladies, mainly cardiovascular and respiratory, are more susceptible to more severe illnesses. Children are also more vulnerable than healthy adults. This is because their systems and internal organs are not fully

Air pollution has been recognized as a major threat to environmental health, and the effects that it can have on the population are extremely varied. In the environmental aspects, air

Among its short-term health effects, according to cleanhouston.org, are reduce ability to breathe, inflammation of the lung tissue, as well as irritation of the nose and throat, and damage to the respiratory cells. If well this problems do not represent a life-threatening problem for most of the people, children and the elderly, who do not possess a very strong respiratory system. It is been proved that pollution has effects on the children illness already existing in the elderly can be aggravated by pollution, which can put their lives on severe

Introduction: The skies of the Central Valley are covered with bad air pollution that can easily be spotted from long distances. In recent years we believed the cloud of pollution came from factories and power plants, but a recent study says differently. The effects on the other side of the continent affects us too. The negative effects that have transcribed from the bad air quality are shortage of breath because our lungs got weaker from inhaling bad air which has led to cases of asthma. Children are hurt by the bad air quality too, since they are outside playing and inhaling the bad air to their small lungs. The actions we and big industries need to take to make sure we lower the pollution

The purpose of this report is to raise awareness among the habitants of the greater city of Los Angeles, California about the health problems that air pollution causes to their lungs but also remarks a major negligence from the industries which polluted the air with a minimum remorse and causing an irreversible damage of our natural environment. By ignoring the air pollution problem we are putting in jeopardy the wellness of the general population. For these reasons we are requesting the approval of the following actions to stabilize the air quality of the city of Los Angeles.

I am pursing my research in an environmental toxicology lab because I would like to understand the effect of air pollution have on human and animal cardiovascular health. Growing as a child in Taiwan, I remember vividly that I always had to wear masks to prevent allergies such as watery eyes, nasal congestion, and running nose that were caused by the dusty and air pollution in the city whenever I went into the city. I was not the only one who was affected by the quality of air in the city. My younger brother also has trouble with the dusty city air. He had an environmental triggered asthma and had to use rescue bronchodilator inhalers to relieve his symptoms. Due to lack of government regulation in air quality and urban greenery establishment

Air contamination can hurt us when it aggregates at high amounts all around in sufficiently high concentrations. A huge number of Americans live in ranges where urban brown haze, molecule contamination, and poisonous toxins posture genuine wellbeing concerns. Individuals presented to sufficiently high levels of certain air contaminations may encounter: bothering of the eyes,nose, and throat, wheezing, hacking, mid-section snugness, and breathing troubles. Compounding of existing lung and heart issues, for example, asthma. Increased danger of heart disease What's more, long haul introduction to air contamination can bring about malignancy and harm to the invulnerable, neurological, conceptive, and respiratory frameworks. In extraordinary cases,

Background: According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2017), air pollution is a contamination of both the indoor/outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that alters our natural environment; some of the most concerning pollutants of public health include particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. As a result, there are numerous findings that show that air pollution is a very critical environmental health that has caused many health problems among

Robert D. Brook et al. (2004) defined air pollution as a heterogeneous, complex mixture of gases, liquids and particulate matter. According to Robert D. Brook et al. (2004), several epidemiological studies have indicated that there is a consistent risk for cardiovascular

Pollutants do not have a big influence on the increase of death cases of people over 65. With growing old the impact of pollutants increases [18]. The conncetion between pollutants and death of children younger than 5 is not statisctically important. Investigations show that pollutants do have an impact on the health of people of all age, not only on elderly people [19].