The Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area had the worst ozone pollution in the nation between 2015 and 2017, and also ranked among the worst in terms of particle pollution, or soot, according to an American Lung Assn. report released today.
for ozone pollution for 19 of the 20 years the association has produced the annual “State of the Air” report. The region ranked seventh-worst in the nation for unhealthy particle pollution days between 2015-17, and fifth worst for annual particle pollution.According to the report, the average number of unhealthy ozone days increased in Los Angeles-Long Beach in this year’s report, compared with last year’s.
Authors of the report wrote that the document “adds to the evidence that a changing climate is making it harder to protect human health.”“The three years covered in this report ranked as the hottest years on record globally,” according to the report. “High ozone days and spikes in particle pollution zoomed, putting millions more people at risk and adding challenges to the work cities are doing across the nation to clean up.
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