Breathing Not Easy Around SoCal

If you have been finding it hard to breathe lately, you are not alone.

Healthnews.com has been crunching air pollution numbers from the Environmental Protection Agnecy for the past 20 years.

The news is not good for anyone in inland Southern California.

The numbers come from 1-thousand counties across the U-S

The five most polluted counties are #1 San Bernardino, #2 Riverside, #3 Kern County, #4 Tulare County in Northern California, #5 Los Angeles.

L-A County has 125 bad air days per year, that’s more than one third of the year. 

San Bernardino County has 151 bad air days a year, that’s 41% of the year.

And all of that pollution is wafting into Riverside County, which has 155 bad air days per year,  that’s 42% of the year.

Long-term exposure to high pollution levels could reduce your life expectancy, otherwise known as dying sooner than you might want,  to go along with cardiopulmonary disease and lung cancer.

To view the full report, please visit: https://healthnews.com/reports/mapping-the-most-polluted-u-s-counties-over-two-decades/  

 

 

Woman wiping her nose while outside.

Photo from Alpha Media Palm Springs CA