CLEVELAND — Public health officials in Cleveland are proposing updates to the city’s air pollution ordinances for the first time since 1977.
“For 50 years, they were doing all right, and they helped get us to the point where we are today,” Christina Yoka, the city of Cleveland’s chief of Air Pollution Outreach, said. “But now what we’re seeing is that there’s some more neighborhood level work and some neighborhood level air pollution that we’re trying to address.”
The American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air Report ranks Cleveland as the ninth worst metro area in the country by “year round particle pollution.” According to the Cleveland Clinic, breathing in dirty air doesn’t just affect the lungs, it could increase risk of heart attack, stroke and more…