Los Angeles has struggled with air pollution problems since before smog became a term. In 1943, smog covered the city so thickly that residents thought they were under a chemical attack. The creation ...

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It’s a title nobody wants, but the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area was again the most ozone-polluted region in the nation — with Western states also continuing to outpace the East in terms of ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KABC) -- The American Lung Association's 2022 State of the Air report, finds that more than 40% of Americans, which is more than 137 million people, are living in places with ...

Within just a few years, California endured its driest three-year period on record and its hottest September in history — a brutal summer month that nearly broke the state’s overtaxed electric grid.

Los Angeles County has filed a lawsuit against the world’s largest beverage companies — Coca-Cola and PepsiCo — claiming that the soda and drink makers lied to the public about the effectiveness of ...

Hispanic women in Los Angeles who were exposed to air pollution and stress during pregnancy were more likely to deliver low birth weight babies, a new study has found. Exposures to such contaminants ...

Los Angeles and much of Southern California were met with a regional air quality alert on Saturday, following July 4th festivities and the state’s largest wildfire of the year. With the Madre Fire ...