Los Angeles Pollution Since Quarantine

By some estimates the pandemic lockdown has taken about 80 of passenger cars off local roads leading to a dramatic reduction in air pollution.

Los angeles pollution since quarantine. With billions of people quarantined and businesses closed travel has all but come to a halt significantly decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. With march now behind us we can definitively say that the air quality last month was the best that l a s seen in at least 40 years. Smog has cleared up over downtown los angeles during the coronavirus pandemic on april 17.

The march 2020 air quality index compiled by the. The notorious los angeles smog is nowhere insight and the city s enjoying its longest stretch of good air quality in at least 40 years but of course the reason for that sucks. According to the california air resources board the last time ozone a major contributor to smog in the los angeles area reached unhealthy levels was in february.

Epa graph shows that the los angeles area experienced the longest stretch of good air quality since 1995 this march. Los angeles is currently experiencing its longest stretch of good air in at least four decades as a result of the city s quarantine. Over the summer the region saw.

6 11pm apr 8 2020. Los angeles air cleanest in world since covid 19. In fact 2020 is on track to see the largest yearly.

Of the us city of los angeles skyline the vision is one obscured by smog with thick air pollution hanging over. The epa s airdata archives stretch back to 1980.