California is facing significant air quality challenges as new pollution standards by the EPA reveal that half of the state's counties fail to meet the updated regulations. Despite environmental policies aimed at reducing pollution, California is home to six of the ten most polluted cities in the United States. The new standards, based on data from 2020 to 2022, have reclassified some days that were previously considered healthy as having negative health impacts. As a result, Californians may notice an increasing number of bad air quality days.
California could be seeing more unhealthy air quality days by a new metric to measure air quality by the EPA. https://t.co/6hJE09Ww3Y
Californians may notice an increasing number of bad air quality days. Pollution isn’t increasing but standards are tighter. Some days that would have previously been categorized as healthy are now considered to have some level of negative health impacts. https://t.co/pwUP6HtjI6
California is home to six of the 10 most polluted cities in the US https://t.co/dKU875VE2C https://t.co/GSXoqDMcds
Map: Half of California counties do not meet new air quality standards https://t.co/78HkUCTUYf
Californians may notice an increasing number of bad air quality days due to new pollution standards. Based on 2020-2022 data, half of all California counties fail to meet the new regulations. https://t.co/IiEWLpknpU
Despite radical environmental policies that have hobbled California's economic growth and threatened its grid, California is home to the cities with the worst air pollution in the country. https://t.co/Y6y9kyqlSt