Los Angeles gets an 'F' for air quality yet again, according to the American Lung Association's new 'State of the Air' report.
had the worst ozone pollution in the U.S., according to the report. The region has been ranked the nation's worst ozone-polluted area in 23 of the 24 years that the Lung Association has produced its State of the Air report, although the association noted that the area improved slightly from last year in terms of unhealthy ozone days and particle pollution days.
This week on In Depth we discuss the raging wildfires burning across California as well as the poor air quality the fires have brought.residents live in areas that earned failing grades for unhealthy ozone pollution days, unhealthy particle pollution days or annual particle pollution levels. More than 40% of residents are in areas with failing grades for each of those pollutants.
Nationally, the report found that nearly 120 million people live in areas with unhealthy air quality, and more than half of them are people of color. The report's authors found that people of color were 64% more likely than white people to live in a county with a failing grade in at least one of the study's pollution categories, and 3.7 times more likely to live in a county with a failing grade in all three categories.
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