Is LA much more polluted than NYC? How did it get so bad, and is there a way to fix it? Is California currently working on a solution?
2007-02-20 07:54:03 · 3 answers · asked by nick11qb 2 in Environment
> Why is the air in Los Angeles so polluted?
There are a lot of cars and trucks, and the San Gabriel mountains block the winds from just blowing the pollution away inland.
> Is LA much more polluted than NYC?
Don't know. Probably.
> How did it get so bad
Lots of people moved to the Los Angeles area. Zoning and home prices in Los Angeles keeps people from living where they work.. so there're long commutes. We don't have a useful mass transit grid in Los Angeles -- the trains don't stop anywhere near where you'd want to get on, and anywhere near where you'd want to get off.
> is there a way to fix it?
Change zoning, so mixed-use buildings become common. Live in the same building you work!
> Is California currently working on a solution?
There is no solutio, but things have been done to, um, keep the problem from getting too bad.
The main thing was emissions controls on cars. The catalytic converter on cars now keeps the skies looking blue instead of gray-brown (and I grew up here, so I know!).
A better solution would be to refrain from building mega-cities like Los Angeles in the first place. But, oh well.
2007-02-20 08:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
L.A. is incredibly opened up with an remarkable variety of conjested, overpopulated components; lot of persons and a super sort of autos. It additionally has oil refineries in those interior of sight components and diverse flowers. Inland from L.A. and those components are hills & mountains that block alot of the polluted air from moving on, even jointly as winds are accessible in from the sea. each and all of the above applies to Houston which will exact be only as undesirable and each and each so usually worst than L.A. It does no longer have the hills/ mountains, yet it has plenty greater desirable refineries and chemical flowers. severe humidity usually restricts pollution from moving on and there is no longer as plenty wind coming in from the Gulf to blow it inland. Alot is likewise delivered approximately by all this unfavourable immigration venture we've and are ???? politicians.
2016-11-24 20:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO they are not. The basin just locked the pollution in there and sometimes it gets bad.
2007-02-20 08:00:32 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋