Air pollution

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Air Pollution in California

Pollution can be defined as components that cause changes in the environment when

introduced to it. These components can be chemicals components or even energy such as heat or

noise in the environment. There are various forms of pollutions and some of them include air

pollution, water pollution, and noise pollution.

California is one of the leading states with very high air pollutions mostly in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is one of the cities in California that has the worst air pollution. The air pollution is

mostly caused by the diesel engines, motor vehicles and industries. Ships have the diesel engines

that produce gases that react with the natural gases in the atmosphere causing changes in the

atmosphere. Many people live in California and each and every day these people move from

places to places they at times use of motor vehicles that have diesel engines too that produce

gases that affect the atmosphere. Industries also produce chemical compounds that cause changes

in the environment (Brunekreef & Holgate, 2010).

Air pollution in California has caused too many defects on people’s heaths. For example,

it has led to respiratory harm such as worsened asthma and inflammation, cardiovascular harm

such as heart attacks, congestive heart failure. Thus the government is working very hard on

reducing the air pollution in California through various ways such as making such the

environment protection agency policies are followed such us funding of the diesel emission

reduction program that helps in replacing old diesels that are harmful to humans health. 


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Therefore California is one of the leading states with air pollution problems leading in

more health effects caused by air pollution such as worsened asthma and heart attacks. However,

the government is really working on it through funding programs such as the diesel emission

reduction program (Arya, 2009).

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References

Arya, S. P. (2009). Air pollution meteorology and dispersion(Vol. 310). New York: Oxford

University Press.

Brunekreef, B., & Holgate, S. T. (2002). Air pollution and health. The lancet, 360(9341),

1233-1242.

Dockery, D. W., & Pope, C. A. (1994). Acute respiratory effects of particulate air

pollution. Annual review of public health, 15(1), 107-132.