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Tuesday, October 04, 2004
Southern California Air Quality
Improves
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Thanks to cooler weather, the LATimes.com
has reported that smog is down this year in Southern
California.
Still, Southern California is failing to meet federal
standards. Moreover, the Los Angeles area had seen
increasing levels of smog for the last 3 years. While
current smog levels are lower than they were a decade ago,
steady increases the past 3 years are still cause for
concern.
Cars are the largest source of smog; however, cars don't
directly create smog. Essentially, CO2 emissions from cars
go into the air and are converted to smog via hot sunlight.
Because this year was cooler than normal, there was less
smog.
Since the cooling trend isn't expected to continue, a hot
summer next year could again raise smog levels in Southern
California.
As for last year, Santa Clarita violated federal smog levels
the most in Southern California.
Smog has been shown to cause health problems for those
living in polluted areas, including increased rates of
allergies and asthma, and overall underdeveloped lungs.
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