air pollution

Have we become OK with watching Earth melt?

November 23, 2016 By Rev. Jim Conn

If we think the ecosystem doesn’t need preserving, we won’t preserve it. If we think climate change just happens, then nothing can be done about it. But if we think humans cause it, then we can...

Study: Cutting carbon dioxide saves 3,500 U.S. lives a year

May 5, 2015 By Seth Borenstein

The study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced.

Bolder action needed on climate change, air quality, health

April 4, 2014 By John R. Balmes, MD, And George D. Thurston, DSc

The third National Climate Assessment report confirms both the role of human activities in causing climate change and the broad range of adverse health consequences that climate change brings.

Air pollution and diabetes: Pollution levels too high

October 12, 2010 By Thomas Riggins

A new national study has found that there is a statistical correlation between exposure to air pollution and adult diabetes.

Oil companies trying to block California clean air laws

August 16, 2010

Texas-based oil giants Valero and Tesoro, among the biggest polluters in the nation, are the main backers of Proposition 23, which would suspend California's clean air laws.