STATE OF THE AIR

According to a recent report from the American Lung Association’s office in Tallahassee, Florida has improved air quality in the three most common forms of hazardous air pollution. Most of this comes from complying with the Clean Air Act and cleaning up major sources of air pollution—power plants and retiring old, dirty diesel engines.

Most notably, the 18th annual report showed lower overall ozone levels and year-round particle levels. The number of people exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution dropped to 125 million people from 166 million.

Nearly 38.9 percent of people in the U.S. live in counties with unhealthful levels of ozone or particle pollution.