Pollution in California | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/05/2019

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00:01:55 1 History
00:04:11 2 Air pollution
00:04:59 2.1 Los Angeles Air Pollution
00:07:35 2.2 Bay Area Air Pollution
00:09:08 2.3 Pollution as an Externality
00:10:43 2.4 Dangers to Health
00:12:09 2.5 Government Intervention
00:14:00 2.6 Tailpipe pollution
00:17:19 2.6.1 Effects of Tailpipe Emissions
00:19:26 2.6.2 Emissions Regulatory Efforts in California
00:24:53 2.6.3 Reformation Efforts
00:26:23 2.7 Air Pollution and Low Socioeconomic Status Communities in California
00:27:18 2.8 Instances of Environmental Injustice
00:27:28 2.8.1 Diabetes in Los Angeles County Latino children
00:29:51 2.8.2 Proximity of schools to vehicle traffic in Culver City
00:32:07 2.8.3 Fracking violations in Kern County school zones
00:34:39 2.8.4 Inequalities in cumulative environmental burdens among three urbanized counties in California
00:37:28 2.8.5 Proposed coal terminal in West Oakland
00:39:56 3 Causes
00:42:02 4 Effects
00:44:07 5 Water Pollution
00:44:16 5.1 Gold Rush Era
00:45:43 5.2 Early 1900's
00:46:36 5.3 leaded Gasoline
00:47:24 5.4 Increased NH4
00:48:18 5.5 Regulation
00:50:48 5.6 Ocean Litter
00:52:21 6 See also



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Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the state of California. Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or stored in some harmless form. The combination of three main factors are the cause of notable unhealthy levels of air pollution in California: the activities of over 39 million people, a mountainous terrain that traps pollution, and a warm climate that helps form ozone and other pollutants. Eight of the ten cities in the US with the highest year-round concentration of particulate matter between 2013 and 2015 were in California, and seven out of the ten cities in the US with the worst ozone pollution were also in California.  Studies show that pollutants prevalent in California are linked to several health issues, including asthma, lung cancer, birth complications, and premature death. In 2016, Bakersfield, California recorded the highest level of airborne pollutants of any city in the United States.Water pollution is defined by the Federal Clean Water Act as "dredge spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water."  In 2011, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study showed that water quality standards were not met on 1.6 million acres of California's 3 million acres of lakes, bays, wetlands and estuaries. The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act governs the water quality regulation in California.