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Port slowdowns worsen air pollution in neighboring communities

by Amanda Peacher
Dec 1, 2021
Portside communities in California have suffered from polluted air for years.
A ferry passes the Port of Los Angeles. Neighborhoods surrounding the port have suffered from pollution linked to transporting massive volumes of goods.
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Wildfires have given parts of the West some of the worst air quality in the world

by Samantha Fields
Aug 27, 2021
Even the East Coast has had air quality issues due to this summer's wildfire smoke.
The San Francisco skyline is only partially visible through smoky conditions in September 2020. Smoke from recent wildfires have caused Nevada and other parts of California to have unhealthy and hazardous air quality.
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Stimulus could fund ventilation improvements in classrooms

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 15, 2021
Run-down public schools made air quality a problem before COVID.
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As wildfires continue, air quality impacts farmworkers — masks requirements vary

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Sep 15, 2020
California has regulations, but it's been hard to get PPE to workers in the fields. There's no federal standard.
Cars drive below an orange sky filled with wildfire smoke in Concord, California, on Sept. 9.
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Office air quality could be dumbing down workers

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Jun 4, 2019
If only we could open those floor-to-ceiling windows.
Employees work in an office in Moscow in 2014.
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Beijing declares dramatic success in fighting air pollution

by Jennifer Pak
May 8, 2019
China says it has succeeded in cutting the city's pollution over 5 years.
Photos taken from the same spot in Beijing for 365 days in 2013
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Study links air pollution to early death

by Scott Tong
Nov 19, 2018
A new report ranks air pollution as the greatest threat to human life, above war and disease.
A Chinese man wears a mask as he waits to cross the road near the CCTV building during heavy smog on November 29, 2014 in Beijing, China. 
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What would your city look like with Beijing's air? A smog simulator

by Marketplace Contributor
Feb 8, 2013
We imagine what would other cities might look like with Beijing-quality air.
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Pollution boosts clean air industry in China

by Rob Schmitz
Feb 7, 2013
Severe air pollution in Eastern China this year has spurred an economic boom for companies making filtration machines, masks, and even clean air 'domes'.
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Beijing's bad air quality has an economic impact

by Rob Schmitz
Jan 14, 2013
Air pollution in Beijing over the weekend was 40 times worse than limits set by the World Health Organization and it has economic implications for China
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