source: EPA
As can be seen, population, GDP and energy consumption all increased, yet emissions of the principal air pollutants dropped 54 percent (and air toxins by 35 percent in just 12 years).
See also Carpe Diem's nifty chart (though "Nitrous Dioxide" should be labeled "Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)").
3 comments:
> "Nitrogen Oxides (NOx)")
As long as we're being mildly pedantic, it should be a subscript x, since it's
NO and NO which we're talking about...
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8oD
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I remember Los Angeles in the early 1960s. _BELIEVE ME_!!! Air pollution _has_ been reduced! The air was honest to goodness brown...
I can even remember the weird feeling I'd get in my chest for about 3 days after returning from an area that relatively smog free.
Sue: Agreed.
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