What You Can Do New Jersey has some of the worst air quality in the country. We need clean cars to protect public health in New Jersey. Every New Jersey resident knows that our state has too many cars that drive too many miles. The pollution that is emitted from our automobiles endangers the health of every New Jersey resident.
New Jersey continues to have some of the dirtiest and most toxic air in the country.
We know that air pollution in New Jersey makes people sick. Almost everyone suffers from occasional symptoms such as shortness of breath and coughing, but most of us rarely attribute those to air pollution. However, bad air quality can be a matter of life or death for the nearly one million people in New Jersey who suffer from a chronic respiratory disease. Air pollution like smog can trigger respiratory distress which can lead to increased asthma attacks, emergency room visits and premature death. New Jersey had 251 smog violations over 42 summer days in 1999 and 930,077 people suffered chronic respiratory diseases including adult and pediatric asthma, chronic bronchitis, and emphysema.