This is a heads up to the Daily Kos community and to other environmental networks I deal with concerning information in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine on the childhood health respiratory health benefits of the significant reduction that has occurred in Southern California PM-2.5 and nitrogen dioxide air pollution......something brought to us all as products of the works of Senator Edmund Muskie and his Clean Air Act allies.
Here is the new NEJM article that explains that improvement in air quality associated with reductions in PM-2.5 and nitrogen dioxide led to an increase in respiratory function growth (as forced expiratory volume) for children and teens in the Southern California health study.
http://www.nejm.org/...
Here is the just released NEJM Editorial in the same issue: Clean Air, Bigger Lungs
http://www.nejm.org/...
Brief NEJM Video on the article:
http://www.nejm.org/...=
Levels of 4 air pollutants in Southern California communities from 1994 to 2011:
http://www.nejm.org/...
Air pollution in Los Angeles, 1980 and 2014:
http://www.nejm.org/...
6:57 PM PT: on that New England Journal of Medicine video....you'll have to open that in a separate window and an "=" on the end......this is an example of a bug in the current version of Daily Kos in that DK will presently not properly render a URL that happens to end with an equal sign...... something that I hope might get fixed in DK5.