Category: Air Quality

An environmental activist claims that air quality explains differences in life expectancies across America. Continue reading Air quality doesn’t shorten lives

Blocking the Baltimore incinerator just blocks jobs. No one dies or gets asthma from outdoor air. Continue reading Goldman Environmental Prize awarded to job-killing, junk science-fueled 20-year old know-nothing

False. Since air quality is not associated with childhood asthma in the first place. Continue reading Claim: Decrease in air pollution associated with decrease in respiratory symptoms among children

“Inhalers often dispensed for no good reason and have ‘almost become a fashion accessory’.” Continue reading Childhood asthma overdiagnosed, argue leading respiratory doctors

So where were all these problems when US air quality was at its “worst”? Where are they in China and India, now? Continue reading Claim: Prenatal exposure to air pollution linked to impulsivity, emotional problems in children

Claim: Heavy pollution from coal-fired power stations results in Serbia losing a third of its national wealth annually because of premature deaths caused by poor air quality. Continue reading Serbian coal pollution bill running into billions

“Last month MEPs voted against a plan to close gaps in air pollution controls on new diesel cars, meaning limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) will be effectively be relaxed from 2019.” Continue reading Europe’s capitals say diesel cars threaten health of residents

So where was all this eye “disease” in, say, Los Angeles in 1955 when ozone levels could be eight or so times higher than today’s standards? Continue reading Claim: Higher ozone, lower humidity levels associated with dry eye disease