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smog
Beijing enjoys best air in decade, vows to banish smog
BEIJING (Reuters) - Olympic host Beijing enjoyed its cleanest air in 10 years this month and will adopt strict new measures to ensure its notorious smog does not return, a top environment official said on Tuesday.
China's Olympic Pollution Efforts "Paid Off"
...the clean air of northern Minnesota, and had never been to Beijing before this summer. T]he pollution and smog in Beijing is much, much worse than I imagined,' she wrote earlier in the week—before the latest rain—on a blog for the Duluth News...
Southern California regional air district accused of sell...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit against Southern California's anti-smog agency Monday, accusing it of allowing companies to pollute by selling them invalid emission credits.
Where Does Smog Occur?
Question: Answer: Severe smog and ground-level ozone problems exist in many major cities around the world, from Mexico City to Beijing. In the United States, smog affects much of California, from San Francisco to San Diego, the mid-Atlantic...
UL, AQS Aid Compliance with California's Ozone-Limiting Reg
These highly reputable organizations will help cut through all of the marketing noise by assuring that all air cleaners sold in California do not emit unhealthy levels of ozone, the main component of smog, and that they are safe for Californians...
Pollution will take several lives in Canada
Similarly national economy will suffer loss of $8-billion due to smog. Brian Day, president of CMA, said that doctors everyday see affect of pollution on people. He told that air pollution is responsible for 11,000 hospital admissions a year and...
Our own Olympian smog
...year from short-term exposure, usually from smog days that cause severe asthma attacks and strokes. Air pollution will also cost the economy more than $8 billion this year, including medical expenses and lost productivity....
Over 21,000 to die from pollution in Canada
...in Canada were due to long-term exposure, a growing number can be attributed to short-term, acute exposure to heavy smog....
Smog? What smog?
BEIJING (AP) Pollution concerns evaporated yesterday under a picture-perfect canopy of blue skies and white clouds on the first day of the Olympic Games' signature track-and-field events.Heavy showers that drenched the city on Thursday cleared...
Beijing Smog Cleanup: Has It Worked?
Here's the surprising thing about the noxious smog that hangs over much of China - it may poison the air, but it also actually offsets global warming. And if the weather patterns change and the air darkens again with smog before the end of the...