Los Angeles City Council: Air Pollution Public Safety

In the fumes and smog of Los Angeles, the city’s air quality is known to be one of the deadliest in the United States. In the Long Beach and Glendale area of L.A. alone, an estimated annual 1,431 deaths is calculated due to the air pollution. Tested air pollutions levels easily transcend safe levels on a regular basis. Air pollution is made up of harmful substances such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Acute illnesses are yet another result of the poor air quality. The pollution causes internal inflammation and an increase in mucus and swelling in the throat, as well as cardiac and respiratory illnesses. The overwhelming negative statistics does not account for cancer or chronic diseases that develop over long periods of time exposed to the air pollution. In the San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ontario Counties, there was a result of around 3,255 acute illnesses every year. In addition to the stated health issues, a staggering 1.3 million people stayed at home in a region known as the Inland Empire in the Greater Los Angeles Area yearly. Furthermore, the cost of healthcare due to hospitalized patients from the toxic air quality surpasses the cost to better the air conditions (Danelski, 2016).

The Los Angeles City Council, on the year of 2011, passed an ordinance known as Clean Up Green Up in an effort to reduce the air pollution in large low-income areas with more advanced air filters in structures near the