EPA: Stronger Smog Standard for Cleaner Air

Website:

http://environment.about.com/b/2010/01/07/epa-proposes-stronger-smog-standard-for-cleaner-air.htm

Summary:

The U.S. EPA which is called the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to make a healthier lifestyle from preventing too much smog in the air. One thing they want to do is reduce more people from driving cars from place to place. The most dangerous one in cities are the Coal Plants it is the largest sources of smog causing pollution. The other thing they want to do is to clean the air by cleaning up the coal plants and the car pollution. Smog is dangerous to adults and especially to the children. It can causes health issues to them like asthma and lung disease. They are going to use the best science out there to set the standards that can help millions of Americans breathe easier and live healthier.

Opinion:

What I think about this is it is a good idea that the EPA is trying to reduce the ways that create smog in the environment. If nobody did anything for our environment, the air we breath wouldn’t be clean. Everyone would be breathing in dirty air and getting some kind of disease, like lung cancer. Cleaning the Coal plants is a good start of making our environment pollution free, but you can only do so much at a time to get it that way. When I started doing the course Environmental Science, I learned that our environment is important to us. If anybody didn’t do anything about the smog people wouldn’t go outside and walk around enjoying the fresh air because the air is full of pollution. So I think it is a great idea to reduce the smog.