Noah Swart

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Cinci/Clev Air

Mr. Moss

Smog

  When it comes to the quality of day to day life our clean air is actually a very important thing. Most people don’t really think about how clean their air is compared to the more populated places of the world. Some cities are completely covered in smog, causing air quality problems for generations to come. In certain places it gets so bad that people will wear an air filter to protect their health. This smog and overall bad air quality is due to the cost of industrial advancement at the cost

of the environment and even the health of a big chunk of the population. Although a lot of the extremely polluted cities are in the countries of China and India the United States isn’t exempt from criticism. The United States has a few cities that have dangerous levels of air pollution, LA being an easy example in the growing problems air pollution can have on the environment. Although the United States in recent years have been making steps to clean up air quality and hopefully protect future air quality.

Cleveland

  When it comes to the large clusters of Midwestern cities most people assume that they’d be the ones most effected by air pollution, as the Midwest is a big industrial supplier to much of the United States. Ohio being probably one of the big Midwestern states and having a border all along the Appalachian Mountains an area known for its mountain blasting. The Two cities come into question, those cities are those of Cincinnati, which borders the bottom left border of Ohio and Cleveland standing by the great lakes at the top of the state’s border. Being very big cities both with a hand in the industrial industry you have an easy case to compare the two and see how location and weather can have an effect on air quality. Using the Ohio EPA – Air Quality Chart one can check the current air quality status of both cities. Both currently have a green check for good air quality, but with Cincinnati having a PM AQI of 45 and an Ozone AQI of 38 compared to Cleveland’s PM AQI at 44 and Ozone AQI at 46. You can see that the difference between the two is very small, and both cities have a very positive air quality. Overall to compare Cincinnati has a more positive air quality but neither has any real potential for later adverse health effects.