Clevelanders not breathing easy: area 8th for soot, 14th for ozone

[Algorem]

Clevelanders not breathing easy: area 8th for soot, 14th for ozone

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1114680692175551.xml

Thursday, April 28, 2005

John C. Kuehner
Plain Dealer Reporter

Greater Cleveland's air once again failed to make the grade.

For the sixth straight year, the American Lung Association gave the region a failing mark because of high ground-level ozone and soot pollution.

The lung association announced its findings in a national report released Wednesday based on data from 2001 to 2003.

Greater Cleveland ranked eighth for soot pollution. The region ranked 14th for ground-level pollution, which is formed in the atmosphere when pollutants from internal combustion engines and power plants combine with oxygen on hot, sunny, windless days...