USA

• EPA restored a policy mandating industrial facilities that release high levels of dangerous pollutants to maintain their pollution controls even after falling below the mandated threshold, targeting chemicals like benzene (Ma, 2025)  
  
  • New innovations to trap air pollution into stone (Stanford, 2025)
• Air quality monitoring vehicles released in California (Day, 2025)
  
  • Tracking per-local air quality data across 64 communities
  • Low-emission vehicles and job creation
  • Funded by California Climate Investments through a state Cap-and-Trade program
  • Collected data expected to become publicly available at the end of June 2026 and is meant to be visually easy to understand
• Americans spend 90% of time indoors and indoor air pollutants can be up to 50x more concentrated than outdoor air pollutants (Camfil USA Air Filters, 2024)
• Reduce air pollution to prevent 730,000 new loss of independence cases and save US $11.7 billion in care costs (Pramanik, 2024)
• City plants in Los Angeles are emitting chemicals in response to rising temps and drought (Dinneen, 2024)  
  
  • 60% of ozone and secondary organic aerosol formation in LA is caused by biogenic terpenoid emissions - correlated with rising temperature

Mexico

• Air pollution was responsible for over 9% of deaths in 2019 (Myllyvirta, 2021)

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