Contact Us California's Air California continues to have some of the dirtiest air in the nation. Threatening Our Health California is suffering a public health crisis due to air pollution. During the summer of 1999, over a thousand violations of health-based air quality standards were reported in California. Air pollution contributes to lung and other types of cancer and respiratory tract infections, can worsen chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and exacerbates asthma.
Children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of air pollution.
More than 600,000 children in California suffer from asthma. While California continues to lead the nation in efforts to reduce emissions from cars, buses and trucks, the increasing number of cars on California's roads and highways is offsetting many of these advances. Irritates the lungs, exacerbates asthma and lung disease, increases incidence of acute respiratory illness in children. Particularly dangerous to people suffering from heart or lung disease, and newborn children and fetuses. Airborne toxins- Found to cause cancer of the heart, lung, breast, ovaries, stomach, liver, pancreas, thyroid, testes and the lymphatic system, as well as leukemia.