Good environmental news


Steven F. Howard writes about environmental improvements
And all this happened without the Kyoto Protocol.

"The year 2004, for example, recorded the lowest level of air pollution since we started measuring the problem seriously in the 1950s. The number of EPA monitors showing elevated levels of fine particle pollution--the kind that lodge deep in the lungs and contribute to respiratory diseases--has fallen by two-thirds just in the last four years. Ozone levels also came in a record low level. More reductions are on the way: The EPA's own computer models predict a more than 80 percent decline in pollution from cars and trucks over the next 20 years as new technologies come on line."

"America's forestlands have expanded by nearly 10 million acres over the last decade and have, in fact, been expanding since the 1920s. No less an environmental authority than Bill McKibben noted that this trend was "the great environmental story of the United States, and in some ways of the whole world." Closely related to this is the reversal of wetlands loss; as recently as the 1970s we were losing 100,000 acres of wetlands a year. The most recent government data say we are gaining wetlands at the rate of about 26,000 acres a year."

The whole article is worth a read.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 24, 2005 at 06:20 AM  Tag


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