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NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the light-up-the-sky dept.

tonyPick writes:

According to the Washington Post a recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reviewed the short term impact of 4th of July fireworks on air pollution across the US:

Every July 4, the 14,000-plus dazzling fireworks displays across the nation have a toxic effect on our atmosphere. A new NOAA study shows they temporarily increase particulate pollution by an average of 42 percent.

The first of its kind study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, analyzed concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at 315 U.S. air quality monitoring stations between 1999 and 2013.

The original press release from the NOAA links to the report itself.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Wednesday July 01 2015, @05:36PM

    by frojack (1554) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @05:36PM (#203852) Journal

    Your freedom stops well short of my roof.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:35PM (#203882)

    Your freedom to drink alcohol is preserved at the cost of 30x more deaths on the same day.
    You have a point though. Maybe aerial fireworks should be legally restricted to a certain area.

  • (Score: 2) by Tramii on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:10PM

    by Tramii (920) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:10PM (#203907)

    So basically, we cannot allow people to have freedoms that might possibly be used to harm others, right?

    Sounds like a quick way to strip away all freedoms to me.

    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:28PM

      by frojack (1554) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:28PM (#203919) Journal

      That does seem to be the way things work in the socialist nanny state environment that most young voters prefer.
      We sadly have slipped under the control of the least capable yet most demanding government teat suckers in history.

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