Report finds Atlanta-area air pollution worsening

Metro Atlanta suffers the third-worst levels of ozone waste otherwise known as smog in the Southeast according to a assessment circulated Wednesday by the American Lung Association The group s annual State of the Air assessment also ranks the Atlanta region fourth-worst in the Southeast for particle trash known colloquially as soot The new record measured air quality across the country from through It identified that nearly half of the U S population live in areas with unhealthy levels of air poisoning Unfortunately too countless people in the Atlanta metro area are living with unhealthy levels of ozone and particle poisoning explained Danna Thompson advocacy director for the lung association in Georgia This air corruption is a threat to human wellbeing at every stage of life increasing the hazard of premature birth and low birth-weight babies causing or worsening lung and heart complaint and shortening lives The lung association urged Georgians to endorsement the work of the U S Environmental Protection Agency EPA which is being hit with budget cuts by the Trump administration Without EPA staff and programs Georgians won t know what s in the air they re breathing and efforts to clean up air impurity will be undone Thompson noted The new overview also ranked the Augusta area fourth-worst in the Southeast for soot although the scrutiny also discovered that part of Georgia to be among the cleanest in the nation for smog Smog is worsening in the Savannah area according to the review dropping from A to B The post Analysis finds Atlanta-area air defilement worsening appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta