Air pollution and infant health: Lessons from New Jersey.

New Jersey: A Case Study of the Reduction in Urban and Suburban Air Pollution from the 1950s to 2010

BACKGROUND Air pollution has been a topic of intense concern and study for hundreds of years. During the second half of the 20th century, the United States implemented regulations and controls to reduce the levels of criteria air pollutants and achieve the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for the protection of human health, while concurrently reducing the levels of toxic air pollu...

Analysis of a Study of Lead Wheel Weight Deposition and Abrasion in New Jersey

This paper analyzes the implications for children's health of shortcomings in the methods and results of a study of lead in the environment, "Quantity of Lead Released to the Environment in New Jersey in the Form of Motor Vehicle Wheel Weights," by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (Aucott and Caldarelli, Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 223, 1743-1752, 2012). The study signifi...

Indoor air pollution.

Economic Activity and Trends in Ambient Air Pollution

BACKGROUND One challenge in assessing the health effects of human exposure to air pollution in epidemiologic studies is the lack of widespread historical air pollutant monitoring data with which to characterize past exposure levels. OBJECTIVES Given the availability of long-term economic data, we relate economic activity levels to patterns in vehicle-related particulate matter (PM) over a 30-...

Concentrations of aldehydes -- Beijing Olympic air pollution

Ambient concentrations of aldehydes in relation to Beijing Olympic air pollution control measures J. C. Gong, T. Zhu, M. Hu, L. W. Zhang, H. Cheng, L. Zhang, J. Tong, and J. Zhang School of Public Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ 08854, USA State Key Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Poll...