| View Larger Image | Air Quality in America: A Dose of Reality on Air Pollution Levels, Trends, and Health Risks | Paperbackby Joel M. Schwartz (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | AEI Press | | Page Count: | 275 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 25, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 1,464,474st |
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This book documents how much U.S. air quality has improved in recent decades and gives by far the most accurate picture available of continuing air pollution problems and how to address them. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 2 reviews)
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A Bubble of Fresh Air in a Sea of Alarmism by R. Maxwell Borders (Cary, NC)  5 Stars
January 23, 2008
Joel Schwarz and Steve Hayward have put together a solid evidence-based book that penetrates so much of the interest-group politics that passes for environmental science - and journalism - these days.
If people knew how much our air quality has improved over the past 30 years, they'd be stunned; not only by the gains, but by how the media have created a perpetual bad-news narrative built on spurious air quality standards designed to keep EPA bureaucrats in jobs. (Call them: asymptotic air quality standards.)
Anyone serious about the gains the US has made in air quality should read this book. It's, well, a breath of fresh air.
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Biased by Debra R. Baker (Gaithersburg, MD United States)  1 Stars
January 08, 2008
Be warned that this book has a political agenda. It is written and published by the American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think tank in Washington, DC.
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