NO WAY!
...The effect of ozone (click here) on mortality was generally higher in the warm season and among persons aged 65 years or over. For an increase in the 3-day running mean concentration of ozone of 21.3 μg/m3, the percentage of increase in daily....
The Republicans do things better than democrats, huh? Really? I guess this is just one of the 'unattainable' issues.
I don't think so. If President Obama wants to bargain with health for a short term jog to economic stability he isn't going to do it at the expense of a child's health. He needs to tell the Republicans and Wall Street to get out of the way of economic development that means regulation that doesn't drive up the cost of health care and doesn' t kill people.
I mean, really now!
This capitulation is a direct result of the desperation by Republicans and their obstructionist tactics regarding economic development. It is more than obvious that Republicans are under pressure to destroy Health Care Reform and return greed to Wall Street. The pressure they are receiving from their cronies is NOW TRICKLING down to the policies of this administration to provide economic relief for companies with huge profits during the years since the 2008 collapse.
I suppose lobbyists have promised job growth for the sake of allowing Lung Disease. Buoy, has the President got this one "W"rong. He needs to stand against the tide and place blame where it belongs. Shame on him.
This is pathetic. The 'breathable air' in the USA is now 'unattainable' for HEALTHY ADULTS? You know there isn't another planet I can go live on and the Shuttle Program is over anyway.
Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 160, Number 2, August 1999, 390-396
Lung Function Growth and Ambient Ozone
A Three-Year Population Study in School Children
A Three-Year Population Study in School Children
University Children's Hospital of Vienna, and Pulmologic Centre, First Internal Department, Vienna, Austria; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and University Children's Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Ozone constitutes (click here) one of the major outdoor pollutants in industrialized countries. For the United States it was estimated that some 70 million people live in areas where the former national ambient air-quality standard of 120 ppb is frequently exceeded (1). Given that the ozone standard has now been changed to 80 ppb, an even greater proportion of the population is considered to live in potentially harmful environmental conditions. Current evidence further suggests that even this standard might be not stringent enough to protect ozone-sensitive (2) subjects from reductions in lung function. Small reductions in volume parameters can be observed in healthy children exercising at ambient ozone as low as 80 ppb (3). Whereas it can be argued that these alterations are trivial and not associated with respiratory morbidity, an increase in hospital admissions for asthma has been observed at similar ozone exposure (1). In places like Mexico City with extremely high chronic ozone exposure epithelial upper airways damage can be observed where atrophy of the nasal mucosa is present in the vast majority of children (4). The formation of oxygen radicals represents the biochemical basis for these observations (5). Ozone reacts slowly with water to give reactive hydroxyl radicals, which are able to oxidize a wide range of biomolecules. They can diffuse freely into cells and lead to ATP depletion, sulfhydril oxidation, and DNA strand breaks. Glycolysis and mitochondrial respiration are impaired, which may lead to cell death....
... During the 3927-day period from April 1, 1981, to December 31, 1991,click here) there were 720,519 admissions for which the principle diagnosis was a respiratory disease. After controlling for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, soiling index, and dew point temperature, the daily high hour concentration of ozone recorded 1 day previous to the date of admission was positively associated with respiratory admissions in the April to December period but not in the winter months....
The options are the same as they have always been, LAWSUITS and seeking standard from State and Local authority. Maybe the States and Local Governments actually give a damn.
