Janice Nolen, national policy adviser at the American Lung Association, says that rather than dealing with the harmful effects of air pollution, the focus should be on tackling theproblem at source.
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is working on a few interesting solutions to theproblemof localizing pollution data with a trio of devices aimed at making the process accessible and affordable for regular people.
In a sign ofthe growing severity oftheproblem, the new regulations published on Saturday describe "emergency measures" for days when pollution becomes a "danger to human health", including mandatory factory closures and restrictions on vehicles.
There's no example of an air pollutionproblem anywhere in the world that has been solved without a cap or legal limit on how much of that pollution can be dumped into the sky.