Steps Toward Better Air Quality In California

“ In 2011, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Survey on Californians and the Environment showed that 45% of California citizens find air pollution to be a “big Problem” and 47% believe that “the air quality of California is worse than it was 10 years ago” (Air pollution in the U.S.). Although California has made many steps to improve air quality in their state in the past in 2013 the city of Los Angeles Area a Major city was ranked first ozone polluted city. Some significant aspects of California pollution dating way back to the 1960’s, the disco areas of the 1970’s the hard rocking 1980’ the future forward 1990’s and the current state of California ‘s air pollution, and some of the expectations for air pollution in California. California has taken major steps to to improve air quality and has continued.

Air pollution has been an issue for the U.S. as a whole for many years dating back to the industrial revolution in the mid 19th century. Since then there has been many different nation wide attempts on improving air quality across the U.S.In the 1960’s a new environmental movement arose things such as “Earth Day” to rise air pollution awareness. Governmental movements such as Clean air acts set several standards and regulations to control air pollution on a national level which has been amended and strengthened in the ensuing decades.

In the 1980’s the 2nd largest state in the united states (California) reached a population of 24 million although this could be considered an accomplishment on many terms, Total registered vehicles surpassed 17 million and vehicle miles traveled is 155 billion. (Key Events In History Of Air Quality In California,Ca.gov,1) although the extreme jump of pollution and registered vehicl...

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...n 2011, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Survey on Californians and the Environment showed that 45% of California citizens find air pollution to be a “big Problem” and 47% believe that “the air quality of California is worse than it was 10 years ago” (Air pollution in the U.S.) I believe in less than a decade these numbers will subside significantly if the trend the trend of many year continues of California's pollution improvement dating way back to the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s,1990’s and the current state of California ‘s air pollution it’ll be a matter of time when future generations are looking to California as a leading in the worlds fight for non polluted air.

Works Cited

http://www.arb.ca.gov/html/brochure/history.htm http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/los-angeles-air-pollution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_the_United_States