Last year the EPA finalized the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule in an effort to reduce air pollution. Recently 16 states have sued the EPA in opposition to this new law (article). Not coincidentally, many of these states have the highest rates of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions in the country.
These current issues in the US bring to mind the environmental issues other parts of the world are facing. Pollution in China has gotten so extreme that gas-masks are now commonplace in Beijing and iPhone applications have been made so that its citizens can track the pollution hourly. Let's hope that here in the US we can take preventative measures now so that we don't have to buy gas-masks later.
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