AIR POLLUTION: A NATIONAL PROBLEM

National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution.

In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total burden of disease (mortality and morbidity) attributable to use of solid fuels in adult women and young children, who jointly receive the highest exposures because of their household roles. Few such studies are ava...

Pollution Portrait: The Fourth National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment

NATIONAL AIR QUALITY INDEX Central Pollution Control Board

This report is prepared based on the recommendations of the Expert Group constituted by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and is being released for seeking public views/comments. The report is also available on CPCB's website, [email protected].

Indoor Air Pollution: An Old Problem with New Challenges

Hazards in our indoor environments have been recognized since biblical times. The advice in Leviticus 14:33–48 for treating mold infested houses has contemporary meaning in the recent World Health Organization (WHO) document on damp and moldy indoor spaces [1]. In the developed world, faulty combustion, carbon monoxide from coal gas, lead paint, poor ventilation of tenement housing and hospital...

Tropospheric Ozone: an Air Pollution Problem Arising in the Washington,

Weather fleck observed on certain varieties of tobacco since 1052 at the U.S. r)epartment of Agriculture Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md., may be indicative of an ozone air pollr~tion problem arising in the Washington, I1.C. area. A study of ozone concentrations and meteorological conditions existing prior to and at the time of the occurrence of weather fleck indicates that the high ozon...