Even healthy adults with no history of respiratory problems can experience chest pains, coughing, congestion, as well as permanent reduction in breathing capacity when exposed to ozone concentrations exceeding the Federal health standards. It is an irony today that healthy adults bicycling or running for their health, or those mowing their lawns or gardening in the suburbs, or those backpacking in the forest - all may actually be harming their health. For the elderly, and the young at play outdoors, and the 100,000 asthma sufferers in West Virginia, ozone pollution means thousands of emergency room visits and missed work or school. For them it means, at best, staying inside - imprisoned, perhaps with an oxygen bottle to breathe. We now have more protective standards to improve our air, but we need greater reductions in smog forming air pollutants to make air safe to breathe without these harmful excesses.
Car exhausts produce another third.
The cheapest and most effective means of reducing nitrogen emissions is to require that when coal is burned that it be burned cleanly. The increased cost is modest. It will evidently not be generally supported in any way from general taxes, but will be passed on to the consumer - the way business always does. They use this rhetoric, and would like for you to believe it, for they are poised to send us these big bills, if they can get away with it. However they must justify increases and they can not.