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This week there has been a big buzz in the environmental field about the recent American Lung Association “State of the Air: 2007” annual report. Although there was good news in that ozone pollution was down through out the country, there was still bad news for California, in particular Southern California. The 71-member Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) are pressing Governor Schwarzenegger and President Bush to take a tougher stance in passing stricter state and federal rules to fight unhealthy fine particle pollution.

To get across their point, Southern California city and county officials have declared their air quality a health crisis.

"You simply have to have the state and federal government do things differently or we are not going to meet the federal standards," said Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge, a SCAG board member.

SCAG states that fine particle pollution in Southern California results annually in:

• 5,400 premature deaths
• 2,400 hospitalizations
• 1,000,000 lost work days

Although much is being done to fight air pollution in the state, various state and federal agencies disagree on strategies.

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The Press-Enterprise
State of the Air: 2007

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