Report finds Atlanta-area air pollution worsening

Metro Atlanta suffers the third-worst levels of ozone contamination otherwise known as smog in the Southeast according to a examination published Wednesday by the American Lung Association The group s annual State of the Air document also ranks the Atlanta region fourth-worst in the Southeast for particle litter known colloquially as soot The new analysis 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 toxicity Unfortunately too countless people in the Atlanta metro area are living with unhealthy levels of ozone and particle garbage noted Danna Thompson advocacy director for the lung association in Georgia This air garbage 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 disorder and shortening lives The lung association urged Georgians to patronage 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 defilement will be undone Thompson stated The new description also ranked the Augusta area fourth-worst in the Southeast for soot although the analysis also identified that part of Georgia to be among the cleanest in the nation for smog Smog is worsening in the Savannah area according to the summary dropping from A to B The post Summary finds Atlanta-area air toxicity worsening appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta