QUOTE: ...Scientists at the University of Michigan say pollution may be the cause of cardiovascular diseases that cannot be explained by high fat intake and smoking.
The lung association reports that 2.8 million people on Long Island - and 150 million people nationwide - breathe air with dangerously high levels of ozone.
Air quality data in the report came from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which monitors pollutants statewide. Monitoring devices on Long Island are located in Babylon and Riverhead. The report involves monitoring conducted between 2003 and 2005.
"All of New York City received Fs for particulate matter, and that should serve as a warning sign for us because last year we had a B for particle pollution," Seilback said, referring to Nassau and Suffolk counties. "We're getting worse because there are more diesel trucks on the road."
Thurston said that not all forms of ozone are bad. "There's the good ozone in the stratosphere that we need to filter out ultraviolet radiation. But we have man-made ozone in the troposphere, where we live. It can oxidize the lining of the lungs and eat away at the tissue. So think of that as you would rust. That's what oxidizing does. It causes things to rust..." UNQUOTE. |
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