2024 State of the Air: Record Highs in US Particle Pollution, with Dr. John Balmes

Episode Highlights
0:16 Intro
2:17 What caused the particle pollution spike?
6:28 The health effects of fine particle pollution exposure
10:23 The new EPA particle pollution standard
14:27 Improvements to ozone pollution and the Clean Air Act
18:46 How to advocate for improvement
20:23 Air quality inequity
24:03 Reflecting on 25 years, and looking ahead
25:52 Outro
Dr. John Balmes, a renowned environmental health sciences expert from the University of California, San Francisco, join Lungcast for a deep dive into the American Lung Association’s newly released 2024 “State of the Air” report.
Balmes specifically provides context behind several concerning trends, notably a spike in deadly particle pollution-the highest levels in the past 25 years largely due to wildfires. The eye-opening conversation also impresses upon the importance of clean transportation and power generation to help mitigate population-wide risk.
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Is there a map to check our location?

[@pernilsson9749]

Thank you for a very intresseding program!

[@franceswomble8083]

I think the number one causes is in the chemtrails.

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Yup. Take care...

[@pernilsson9749]

This particles generated from direct, indirect "human" actions, as from nature.
This are also, together with the gigant defosterisations, firesmokes from aktive fireing of "nature" the main resons and causes for metrological new fenomenas in new places as for the melting of glaciers.
And not the CO2levels.