Global warming complicates the fight against air pollution in the United States, says on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 the American Association of Lungs in its annual report, saying that fears the negative impact of the budget cuts of the Trump administration on environmental matters.
“Despite the decades of effort to reduce sources of air pollution,” 46% of Americans, more than 151 million people, breathe an “unhealthy air,” says this report, made of data measured between 2021 and 2023.
This represents 25 million additional people exposed to too high levels of particle or ozone pollution compared to the previous report, and a total higher than the annual balances of the last ten years.
“More dismissals are even more vitiated air equivalent”
The Centennial Association of Pulmonary Diseases of the fight considers that the fiscal reductions provided by the Trump Administration in structures such as the American Agency for American Protection (EPA) will worsen the situation.
“More dismissals are even more vitiated air equivalent,” the report said, while the White House announced at the end of February a two -thirds reduction target of the EPA funds, which had a budget of more than $ 12 billion in 2024 and used more than 15,000 people.
According to a plan shared in mid -March with AFP, the EPA intends to eliminate its research and development office and discard most of the workforce, when the Trump administration already revokes many environmental standards.
The trend observed by the American Association of Lungs during the last decade is explained in particular by the impact of climate change.
“The multiplication of days of high ozone concentration and pollution peaks for heating, drought and forests endangers millions of people,” says the report, leaving that these conditions complicate the efforts made at the federal and municipal level to improve air quality. Two of the most polluted metropolis are found in California.
Trump describes the energy transition as a scam “
Bakersfield, 150 km northwest of Los Angeles, remains the most exposed to particle pollution for the third consecutive year, and Los Angeles remains the city with the worst ozone pollution in the United States, for the 25th time in the 26 editions of this report published for the first time in the year 2000.
Notorious Climatecepte, President Donald Trump regularly describes “the energy transition.
His government has fired hundreds of employees from the American and Atmospheric Observation Agency (NOAA), who plays a leading role in climatic research in the United States.
His government has also announced that the United States, the second world pollution behind China and the first historical pollution, would withdraw for the second time from the Paris Agreement, which endangers global efforts destined to curb global warming. This retirement will enter into force on January 27, 2026.
Source: BFM TV
