the air around us is toxic, full of toxins that cause cancers, along with other serious ailments. The magnitude of air toxics is alarming, especially those emitted by vehicles. These are greater cause for concern because they are inadequately monitored.
A recent study, Smoke Screen: Ambient Air Quality in India , by the Community Environmental Monitoring, a Chennai-based people's movement, reported that air toxics in ambient air, on an average, exceeded the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) Region 6 screening levels by a factor of 1,174-32,000. Screening levels, calculated for residential exposure, are based on a one-in-a-million cancer risk or a
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/hazardous-mobile-air-toxins-air
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/chirag-shah
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/air-pollution-control
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vehicular-pollution
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-air-quality
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/benzene
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cancer
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
