SACRAMENTO, CA - As Earth Day approaches and gasoline prices rise, one legislator seems determined to make environmentally friendly transportation more costly for Californians.
Heat Advisory, a recent report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), claims that increased temperatures resulting from global warming will cause higher ozone smog levels and therefore harm Americans’ health. In other words, in addition to other harms, NRDC claims global warming will cause future air pollution to be worse than current air pollution levels. For example, NRDC asserts that the number of days per year exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 8-hour ozone standard will increase by an average of 60 percent in America’s metropolitan areas.
