American Lung Association

Los Angeles Has America's Most Polluted Air?

L.A is the capital of many things. Few of them are good things. At least not lately, it seems. A day after it was announced that Los Angeles is America's traffic-congestion Mecca once again (breaking news, that), we bring you the American Lung Association's annual "Most Polluted Cities" list:

Survey: New York Now Beats Los Angeles as 'America's Dirtiest City'

New York and Los Angeles, the nation's two largest cities, are notoriously filthy in their own special ways. New York packs its residents in extra tight for that one-of-a-kind human-density stench, but L.A. does the same with its cars; New York's streets ooze with nasty brown slush in the winter-spr ... More >>

Bijan Pakzad, Designer and Billboard King, Remembered

Juan Soliz/NewscomBijan Pakzad​Iranian fashion and fragrance designer Bijan Pakzad -- who died April 16 of a stroke in Beverly Hills -- was, we are told, "the most expensive menswear designer in the world." Those who packed Royce Hall at UCLA to memorialize him in the warmth of springtime w ... More >>

American Lung Association to Los Angeles: Your Air Quality Sucks!

Ted SoquiL.A. housing complex near the air pollution of busy freeway.​The American Lung Association just released a health report Los Angeles politicians will most probably try to ignore, and hope the public will not notice, but facts are facts: Los Angeles' air quality sucks, and its residen ... More >>

Los Angeles Scores High 'C' for Tobacco Control; Bell, Cudahy Info 'Incomplete,' Say Researchers

Smoking problem? Or transparency problem?​Hooray, L.A. City Council! Your ceaseless attempts to ban smoking in every last nook of Los Angeles have finally paid off. You got a 'C' on the American Lung Association's "State of Tobacco Control" report card for 2010, and we couldn't be more proud. ... More >>

Smoking Rates Up In West Hollywood, South L.A., South Bay

​Despite nationwide efforts to curb smoking, a recent study released by the county Department of Public Health has revealed that rates of lighting up in Los Angeles have remained steady since 2002, though some areas, including West Hollywood, South Los Angeles and the South Bay have seen incre ... More >>

L.A. Tops List Of 'Most Polluted Cities'

NASA​Old timers will tell you it's not like it used to be, when Los Angeles would be socked in for weeks at a time by dense smog that ringed the foothills and capped the basin. It has been a long time. Still, comparatively speaking, L.A. is still tops when it comes to air pollution. The Ameri ... More >>

True Grit

Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

Villaraigosa's Strange Clean Air Claim

As L.A. Weekly often reports, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has a habit of making strange claims -- remember how he calls himself the hardest working mayor in America and says, with LAPD Chief Bill Bratton's blessing, that L.A. is as safe as 1956? This week, longtime Daily News scribe Rick ... More >>

California Pollution Report: The Lung Goodbye

Today the American Lung Association released its state of the air report. The survey flunked 32 California counties, while awarding 16 counties A's. L.A. County was definitely not among the latter, scoring F-eroos in two categories, High Ozone Days and Particle Pollution. According to the ALA, this ... More >>

Pollution Report: The Choke's on Us

For all the talk about America's "greening," 60 percent of us still live in areas with dangerously high pollution, according to a new American Lung Association report. Basing their conclusions on state and local statistics gathered by the Environmental Protection Agency between 2005 and 2007, the AL ... More >>

It Pays to Be Green: On Beth Barrett's Measure B Story

Peter Woods

Collective reasoning

Lung Gone

The Air That We Breathe

Just when it looked like we might win the war on smog, a new and more deadly form of air pollution stalks Los Angeles

Stench of Politics

Industry money to the “Mod Caucus” fouls the fight for clean air

Outing Polluters

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Remembering the stinging lungs of an L.A. boyhood

A Chokehold on the Future

Hopes for cleaner air disappear into the haze

Crash and Burn

Tobacconists report rise in heists to match price hikes