Las Vegas Receives Failing Grade For Air Quality: Breathing Danger
If you’ve ever seen a cloud of “dust” covering the Las Vegas valley then you’ve witnessed air pollution.
The American Lung Association recently ranked Las Vegas as #15 for “metropolitan areas with the worst air pollution.”
The article essentially ranks different cities across the country in terms of their air quality. Las Vegas came in #15 out of 227 metropolitan areas, putting us at a top notch for cities with the worst air quality.
“Particle pollution is a general term for a mixture of solid and liquid droplets suspended in the air,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
According to the study by the lung association, Las Vegas ranked at #31 for having the “worst” 24-hour particle pollution out of 223 metropolitan areas. Along with that, we ranked at #31 for worst annual particle pollution out of 200 metro areas. So overall, we have a high amount of particle pollution in the valley compared to other cities.
However, compared to Los Angeles, both LA and Las Vegas received an “F” grade when it came to the amount of “high ozone days.”
According to the EPA, ground-level ozone can trigger a variety of health problems. High ozone days are when pollutants emitted by cars, power plans. boilers, refineries, chemical plants, etc. react with certain environmental factors like sunlight. This reaction then creates “ground-level ozone,” which can worsen asthma, COPD, can damage lungs and overall cause many more detrimental health effects.
Las Vegas had an average of 16 “high-ozone days” while Los Angles/Long Beach had 177 high ozone days.
Being ranked high on this list isn’t a celebratory achievement either. The American Lung Association states that air pollution can cause a plethora of health issues and — in some cases — premature death.
Conditions like asthma, COPD, cardiovascular diseases and more can extremely worsen due to poor air quality. And other statistics like infant mortality, reduced lung development and impaired lung function in children, impaired neurological development and cognition are higher in areas with heavy air pollution, the American Lung Association states.
“The State of Air” study the American Lung Association conducted further said that 120 million people in the U.S. live in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone and particle pollution.
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