The Battle against Air Pollution

Public health often involves out of multiple disciplines but at its core, resides in the general interest of the health of populations. How healthy a population is, often depends on their overall environment. Poor air quality can cause undesirable health issues among individuals in sensitive portions of the population who are asthmatic, have lung disease, or even cardiovascular conditions. Especially in areas where communities are affected by the outcomes of policies that directly impact the health of individuals, their safety, and other things.

Arizona is on the rise as one of the fastest metropolitan areas in the United States of America. In fact, in 2015 Forbes Magazine ranks Phoenix, Arizona as the 11th fastest growing city in the U.S.1 This growth is due the unprecedented resources and growing opportunities in the state of Arizona. With all of these opportunities come more production, which means more emissions from various industries and cars, more fossil fuels burned, and household and farming chemicals added to the sky. All of these are examples of pollution; which is one the sacrifices that comes with being a large city that is emerging. Pollution is defined as the action or process of making land, water, air, etc., dirty and not safe or suitable to use.2 We understand that Phoenix is a rapidly growing city, but they should be able to grow without being a detriment to the environment and health of their citizens. The purpose of my report is to examine the problem of air pollution in Phoenix, Arizona and look at solutions to fix this problem.

According to National Geographic Magazine, countries around the world have undertaken and implemented measures to combat air pollution. These measures aim to limit emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to air pollution. The United States of America is one of the hundred and seventy five (175) countries that signed the Paris Agreement to combat climate change which includes air pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of United States of America formulates strategies and enforces laws and regulations such as the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA as the enforcing agency stipulated in the clean air act that all stationary sources such as factories and chemical plants “must install pollution control equipment

In the United States alone, nearly 150 million people live in areas that don’t meet federal air quality standards. For many years, air pollution has been on the rise but more recently it’s been proved how pollution poses a greater danger to both the environment and the everyday individual. Its everlasting effects on the world, such as global warming and its depletion of the ozone layer, are going to play a huge role in the years to come. Consequently, there has been an increase in death rates from various illnesses caused by air pollution, varying from breathing problems to even worse, lung cancer. While these effects may go unnoticed, they are still an enormous issue at hand and are triggering more complications within our society. Though

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

Hundreds of thousands of people die from air pollution in the U.S. each year, some of which can be attributed to burning transportation fuels, Marshall said.

Air, is one of the most substantial source to mankind and our planet. While it exists, so does everything else along. However, in today’s epidemic, there has been certain factors that have increased in understanding whether the air we breathe today is healthy or not? Is it doing more harm than we thought? In other words, the health risks against air pollution have risen in the past few decades; all from what you may ask? Well, it could be for various factors and evaluations; either environmental or materialistic. Pollution is a major public health crisis in the world. (Friis, 2012). This is one of the conflicts that contribute to various aspects of an individual’s life, whether they may realize it or not. In this paper will include the sources that cause pollution with the effects it cause as well as policies on the regulation of air pollution.

The enhancement of air quality may lead towards relief for the asthmatic patients as the poor air quality is considered as the main factor that can cause asthmatic attacks. The EPA should work towards relocating the industries causing pollution in the residential area so as to provide a good environment for the living beings where they can breathe fresh air without any pollutants. The ambient air quality standards are also being checked by the EPA and any breaches may result in subsequent action towards them. This may help towards providing a good living environment for the human beings where they can get fresh air to breathe, “Measuring Pollution Prevention”.

From North to South, East to West, New York to Ohio, the issue of air pollution and climate change has been under discussion in the last sixty years and how it has changed the climate terrain in the United States. Air pollution can be dated to October 1948, the Donora Pa for that razed almost half of the town where 14000 residents were rendered homeless and started to experience severe respiratory and cardiovascular problems. During this time, breathing became a major issue and the death toll rose to over forty people and consequently, some of the disturbing pictures emerged from Donora engulfed in a thick blanket of gray smog with cooler air bellow and some sealing pollutant (Andersen et al 2011). The Donora was

Air pollution is everywhere in today’s society from vehicles power plants, industries, and even forest fires. These pollutants are either manmade or from natural sources. No matter where they come from one thing they have in common is that these different kinds of pollutants are harmful to people’s health. Air pollutants affect the body’s organ systems causing damage, especially to the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Air pollution contributes to the higher risk of developing or worsening respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

China is experiencing an alarming decrease in air quality. In the first 3 months of 2015, about 90% of the cities in China failed to meet the national air quality requirement. Beijing, surrounded by the heavily industrialized province of Hebei, is one of the most polluted cities in China and is followed by the cities Baoding, Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Handan and Hengshui. The smog in Beijing has forced schools to build domes with air filters over recreational sections so that students can play sports without having to inhale the dangerous components in the smog. The recommended safe air quality index level is 25, but that index is rarely met given that levels over 250 are reached in Beijing; young children are not allowed to play outdoors at levels above 200, and older children are to remain indoors when the levels reach above 250. People are getting in the habit of wearing air filter masks to decrease their exposure to polluted air, but pollution is now threatening water quality–no mask can fix

According to the annual survey of air quality done by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1995, air pollution has decreased 30% nationwide over the past twenty five years yet "80 million

An average human consumes about 11,000 liters of air in a day. Not only are we breathing in natural gases such as oxygen and nitrogen, but we are also inhaling other matters that are potentially dangerous to our health. These air pollutants that we breathe in are divided into two separate categories: primary and secondary pollutants. Primary pollutants are emitted in the form in which they were produced. This includes: smoke, inorganic gases such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, and greenhouse gases. Secondary pollutants are primary pollutants interact with another pollutant in the air. This includes ozone, smog, and acid rain. All of these that were listed are the forms of air pollution that humans are continually exposed to every single day. Air pollution not only affects our natural environment and economy, but also our health whether we realize it or not. There is however, a big difference in levels of air pollution around the world. The first world country of United States has a much better air quality than other countries such as the third world country of Pakistan. This paper will be explaining what air pollution is, explain the significant impact of air pollution on our respiratory system, comparing and contrasting between the two countries of the United States and Pakistan, and discuss ways to prevent or alleviate the problem.

Today we face a major threat: global warming. People polluting the air constantly get so blinded by their own greed that they do not tend to realize what they have created. Our society runs on fossil fuels as a source of power, and as we continue to abuse the use of nonrenewable resources, we harm the Earth’s climate. Humans have made the biggest contribution to global warming, and the dangers will only get worse if nothing gets done. Our various toxic activities, such as working at power plants, drilling up natural gases and oil, and deforestation all emit greenhouse gases into the air, and because of these omissions large bodies of ice and oceans, the wildlife, and people 's health will continue to get harmed extremely unless governments worldwide gets together and place a ban on greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2045.

Smog-fighting is a real war of environment protection.The impact of smog on people’s living have been more and more deeply.The smog had became the biggest killer of our environment.So ,Smog-fighting is coming to all the public now . First we can find the real reasons to cause smog from the experts so that we can do something to reduce the pollution.Second,we can learn some experience from other cities; because It has been problem faced by many cities in the history ,such as Los Angeles in the U S and London in the U k.And then, drawing the attention to our government and call on our government to take their responsibility and control in the environment protection.After all these study ,we can clearly find