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4:45 A new report from the American Lung Association finds that over 40% of Americans live with unhealthy levels of air pollution. The American Lung Association’s 2021 State of the Air Report has compiled air quality data from 2017 through 2019 to identify the nation’s most polluted regions. Laura Kate Bender of the American Lung Association says that three out of every eight Americans are living in counties with a failing ozone grade. That includes residents of Doña Ana County, which recorded an average of over 22 high ozone level days annually. Despite the failing grade, Bender says t...
Metro areas in New Mexico also suffered from heightened pollution. Group advocates for greater controls on emissions from fossil fuel development. As oil and gas boomed in New Mexico in recent years, air pollution spiked in areas of heavy fossil fuel operations, per a new report from the American Lung Association. The Association’s annual State of the Air Report, published Wednesday, showed increases in ground-level ozone in both Eddy and Lea counties in southeast New Mexico in the prolific Permian Basin shale play, and assigned both counties an “F” grade. The 2021 report covered 2017, ...