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One in Six Americans Breathing Unclean Air According to Lung Association

by Angela April 30th, 2009 - No Comments »

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186 million, or 60% of Americans, live in areas that are subject to bad air pollution.  Los Angeles continues to be the worst ozone offender, a spot it has held for the last nine out of ten years.  The numbers for this year were much higher than last year’s report, put out annually by the American Lung Association.  Last year’s had the number of Americans living in at-risk air pollutions areas at 125 million.  More at Reuters.

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