More than 44m Americans are living in areas with toxic levels of pollution linked to asthma attacks and strokes

dailym.ai— Americans are suffering from the worst levels of air pollution in 25 years, according to a new report. West Coast cities are primarily affected because of the large number of wildfires and drought.

NBC News—131 million in U.S. live in areas with unhealthy pollution levels, lung association finds. Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The organization’s report — its 25th annual analysis of the “State of the Air” in the country — found that between 2020 and 2022, 131 million people were living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The figure increased by nearly 12...

Daily Mail—America's toxic wastelands: More than 20 million people living near sites polluted with hazardous waste linked to infant deaths and cancer. The EPA recently updated its Superfund list to include 1,340 locations across the US that are within one mile of more than 20 million Americans. These sites are polluted with toxic waste.

dailym.ai—National Hell Service: NHS ambulance crews are missing key response time targets for heart attack and stroke patients in all but ONE area of England. Windsor and Maidenhead was the only one of 194 areas to meet the target for so-called 'Category 2' calls last year, with an average time of just over 16 minutes.