This is an area with huge traffic congestion and air pollution dominated by the controversial Cross Bronx and Bruckner Expressways created by Robert Moses, America's greatest town planner, which continue to cause problems more than 40 years after they were completed.
Attacks on water pollution limits, weaker protections from pesticides, and assaults on restrictions on air pollution dominated Congressional debates in recent years.
Between 2005 and 2007 we conducted a cohort panel study of acute cardiovascular outcomes with home-based ambient air pollution monitoring in the Los Angeles, California, Air Basin, where ambient air pollution is dominated by mobile sources.
These observations indicate the importance of intraurban variations in long-term pollution climates when estimating associations between exposure and mortality and suggest that public health impacts of air pollution may be dominated by long-term exposure determined by geographical differences in pollution climates.
The discussion was dominated by pollution, deforestation and whaling.
Were that to happen, emissions would be as high as the entire transportation sector, which takes up 14% of global greenhouse emissions, currently dominated by pollution from cars and trucks.
Factor analysis indicated that the river suffered organic, phosphorus, and nitrogen pollution and a zone dominated by agricultural and built-up land uses in the river basin tended to have worse water quality than other areas.
Though there had been earlier fights against pollution problems in communities dominated by people of color and lower-income people, it was the siting of a landfill in a poor part of North Carolina that sparked such a fight that it is often cited [pdf] as the impetus for the movement.
The results showed that the structure of the periphytic algal and macrozoobenthic communities were dominated by pollution-tolerant genera, namely the bacillariophytes Navicula and the annelids Tubificidae respectively, and TN, NH3N and TP were key aquatic environmental factors affecting the ecosystem health of streams in the DLW.
Specifically, a 3 × 3, 4 × 3, 5 × 4 and 6 × 5 SOM reveal the same broad patterns of multipollutant day types, with days dominated by primary pollution in one corner and days dominated by secondary pollution in the other.
The pollutant combinations dominating these poorer air quality days suggest that pollution released at ground level (mobile sources) was concentrated due to poorer mixing meteorological conditions and potential inversions (i.e., high barometric pressure, low wind speed, and low humidity).
