The Clean Air Act: Substantial Success and the Challenges Ahead

Elucidating the role of environmental management of forests, air quality, solid waste and wastewater on the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2

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Research on the Lung Cancer in China and the Possible Solutions

“…According to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Actions to control emissions from vehicles, factories, electric power plants, and more have reduced emissions of the most prominent pollutantsparticulate matter, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and lead-by 73%, even while the U.S. gross domestic product has grown by more than 250%." [5]. Air in the United States is much healthier to breathe today than it was five decades ago, and this progress has been achieved, it appears, without detracting from the health of the U.S. economy.…”

Effects of air pollution on cardiovascular health in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Evidence from a large tertiary hospital in Shandong Province, China

“…The Clean Air Act, enacted in 1970 and further amended in 1977 and 1990, is the most influential environmental regulation in U.S. history. Since 1990 there has been approximately a 50% decline in emissions of key air pollutants, which also brought dramatic health benefits, 230,000 deaths per year averted from lower concentrations of outdoor PM, 7,100 premature deaths per year averted from lower ozone concentrations, 200,000 fewer acute myocardial infarction cases per year, and 2.4 million asthma exacerbation are prevented each year ( 17 – 19 ). In Western Europe and the European Union, air quality regulations have significantly reduced air pollution and improved small-airway health in adults.…”