Yale Environment 360: Levels of some automobile-related pollutants in Los Angeles have plummeted by 98 percent since the 1960s, even as gasoline consumption nearly tripled during the same period, a new study says. Levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are emitted from the tailpipes of cars and are a key ingredient in ground-level smog, have dropped steadily and fell by about half between 2002 and 2010, researchers found. "The reason is simple: Cars are getting cleaner,' said Carsten Warneke, a researcher...
URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/auto-related_pollution_in_la_declined_98_percent_over_50_years/3586/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29
Enclosure: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/pip/2012JD017899.shtml
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