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As global warming causes hot summer days to get hotter, concentrations of an air pollutant called ozone increase, forming lung-damaging pollution commonly known as smog. NRDC analysis—done in partnership with medical experts at Yale University, the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in collaboration with University at Albany SUNY and the University of Wisconsin-Madison—assesses how much smog levels could rise over the eastern United States because of global warming, and what that could mean for public health. New data focuses on 10 additional cities at risk for rising smog levels: Asheville, North Carolina; Cleveland, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Greenville, South Carolina; Memphis, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Wilmington, North Carolina.
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