Pollution

A sewage company in St. Petersburg, Russia, is teaching us all that when it comes to the quality of the air that you breathe, it pays to rely on your own senses sometimes.

Vodokanal, a St. Petersburg water company, is using giant snails, which serve as indicators of potentially harmful pollution from a sewage incinerator on the basis that the snails can pick up air quality readings more readily than the company's instruments. It has also employed crayfish to evaluate the quality of the city's drinking water, The Australian reports.

"Live organisms won't deceive anyone about the danger of pollution," Vodokanal director or wastewater disposal Olga Rublevskaya told the news source. "Now we are under the watch of snails and crayfish all the time."

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The New York downtown metro area declared an Air Quality Action Day on Friday to curb what is forecasted to be an elevated level of particulate matter (PM) pollution, prompting residents to take public transportation, carpool or walk.

According to the Long Island Press, the New York State Department of Transportation issued the initiative to combat side affects related to PM pollution, such as heart attacks, asthma attacks, stroke and other respiratory and cardiovascular complications.

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Getting asthma under control may not be easy, but measures can be taken to enhance air quality in the spaces where asthma sufferers spend most of their time.

The Los Angeles Times reports that over 40 schools in the Wilmington metro area will be equipped with air filtration systems in an effort to reduce asthma symptoms among students. The condition has been linked to elevated pollution levels in the Port of Los Angeles.

The filters are part of a deal made by environmental groups with the city of L.A. in 2008 to alleviate health symptoms caused by cargo pollution. At least 40 percent of the nation's imported goods come through the port, resulting in high concentrations of harmful contaminants, the news source reports.

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Living in a state with strict pollution laws doesn't always mean its residents will be protected from airborne contamination.

Even though it passed laws several years ago to curb pollutant levels within its own state, Maryland is still at risk for harmful mercury emissions coming from neighboring states, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia have some of the highest levels of mercury emissions in the country. Additionally, many of those harmful toxins migrate directly to Maryland, where 73 percent of all mercury air pollution comes from outside sources, the news source reports.

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Drivers in California may have something to look forward to from both an environmental and economical standpoint as fuel emissions may face stricter controls, leading to improved air quality and better mileage.

Officials on the state and federal levels are working together to draft new auto standards for cars and light-duty trucks built between 2017 and 2025. The decision to issue joint standards came after initial plans to draft state-specific rules that many automakers feared would create a "patchwork" of state and federal standards, the Wall Street Journal reports.

According to the news source, California has historically set environmental standards before the federal government.

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Residents of both the most and least developed countries are exposed to pollution on a daily basis.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a recent speech that at least 2 million people die each year because of indoor air pollution. The deaths mainly occur in developing countries, where access to electricity is scarce and people rely on harmful biomass fuels.

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Kids are often capable of teaching adults valuable lessons, not least of which may relate to the quality of the air that we breathe.

Students in Dover, South Carolina, are organizing adult education programs regarding the effects of vehicle emissions on the environment. The sessions take place after school as parents come to pick up their kids, The Times and Democrat reports.

"They count the cars and see how many there are that are leaving their engine running. They tell them that kids will be breathing the chemicals and ask them to try to remember to turn their engines off the next time. When the kids talk, their parents usually listen," fifth-grader Keri Kibodeaux told the news source.

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Depending on where they live, some Americans may be more subject than others to the occasional air quality alert warning for the region in which they live.

Utah's Cache, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties received a "red" air quality warning on Friday by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, which will prohibit all wood and coal burning as well as encourage residents to carpool and reduce potentially harmful emissions in order to counteract the already dangerous pollution levels, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

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New Yorkers and Americans everywhere have something besides last weekend's unseasonably warm temperatures to feel good about at the start of 2011 - the daily Air Quality Index (AQI), or Air Pollution Index (API), for New York City improved significantly over New Year's weekend, rising two levels following the AQI Standard.

According to the U.K.'s Independent, New York's AQI went from being designated as "unhealthy for sensitive groups" on December 31st to the top rating of "good" on January 3, surpassing the "moderate" category.

Mexico City was the one other location reported to have made such a transition, while San Francisco was the only other American city mentioned by the news source and remained at its rating of "moderate."

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Many Americans are aware that you don't have to work at a power plant to be exposed to potentially harmful pollutants.

Fortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be enforcing stricter emission limits for power plants and refineries under a revised provision of the Clean Air Act that was newly agreed upon by the Obama administration, the New York Times reports.

The new standards will affect the plants and refineries that constitute 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to the news source.

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