CITED ARTICLES

1)Perez L, Declercq C, Iniguez C, et al. Chronic burden of near roadway traffic pollution in 10 European cities (APHEKOM network). European Respiratory Journal, 22 March 2013 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00031112

2)Sunyer J, Esnaola M, Alvarez-Pedrerol, M, et al. Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study. PLOS Medicine, 2015; 12 (3): e1001792 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001792

3)Clark-Reyna S, Grineski S, & Collins T. Residential exposure to air toxics is linked to lower grade point averages among school children in El Paso, Texas, USA. Population and Environment, 2015; DOI: 10.1007/s11111-015-0241-8

4)Talbott E, Arena V, Rager J, et al. Fine particulate matter and the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Environmental Research, 2015; 140: 414 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2015.04.021

5a)Oudin A, Braback L, Oudin Astrom D, et al. Association between neighbourhood air pollution concentrations and dispensed medication for psychiatric disorders in a large longitudinal cohort of Swedish children and adolescents.  BMJ Open, 2016; 6(6): e010004 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010004

5b)Fonken LK, Xu X, Weil ZM, et al. Air pollution impairs cognition, provokes depressive-like behaviors and alters hippocampal cytokine expression and morphology. Molecular Psychiatry, 2011; DOI: 10.1038/mp.2011.76

5c)Lew B, Arvin B. Happiness and air pollution: evidence from 14 European countries. International Journal of Green Economics, 2013 (in press)

6)deBoent J, Casas M, Barrera-Gomez J, et al. Ambient air pollution and overweight and obesity in school-aged children in Barcelona, Spain. Environment International, 2019; 125: 58 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.048

7)Thiering E, Cryrs J, Kratzsch J, et al. Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and insulin resistance in children: results from the GINIplus and LISAplus cohorts. Diabetologia, 2013 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-013-2925-x

8)Ziska L, Makra L, Harry S, et al. Temperature-related changes in airborne allergenic pollen abundance and seasonality across the northern hemisphere: a retrospective data analysis. Lancet Planetary Health, Vol 3, Issue 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10/1016/S2542-5196(19)30015-4

9)Sbihi H, Allen R, Becker A, et al. Perinatal Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Atopy at 1 Year of Age in a Multi-Center Canadian Birth Cohort Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2015; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1408700

10)Air pollutants could boost potency of common airborne allergens. ScienceDaily, 22 March 2015.  Materials provided by American Chemical Society. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150322080208.htm.

11)Zao F, Elkelish A, Durner J, et al. Common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifoliaL.): Allergenicity and molecular characterisation of pollen after plant exposure to elevated NO2. Plant, Cell and Environment, 2015; DOI:10.1111/pce.12601

12)Mendola P, Wallace M, Seuk Hwang B, et al. Preterm birth and air pollution: Critical windows of exposure for women with asthma. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2016; DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.12.1309

13)Talbott E, Arena V, Rager J, et al. Fine particulate matter and the risk of autism spectrum disorder. Environmental Research, 2015; 140: 414 DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2015.04.021

14)Nachman R, Mao G, Zhang X, et al. Intrauterine Inflammation and Maternal Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 during Preconception and Specific Periods of Pregnancy: The Boston Birth Cohort. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2016; DOI:10.1289/EHP243

15)Leiser C, Hanson H, Sawyer K, et al. Acute effects of air pollutants on spontaneous pregnancy loss: a case-crossover study. Fertility and Sterility, 2018; DOI:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.10.028

16)Margolis A, Herbstman J, Davis K, et al. Longitudinal effects of prenatal exposure to air pollutants on self regulatory capacities and social competence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 17 MAR 2016 DOI:10.1111jcpp.12548

17)Genkinger J, Stigter L, Jedrychowski W, et al. Prenatal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Exposure and Child Behavior at age 6-9. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2012; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1104315

18)Vishnevetsky J, Tang D, Chang H, et al. Combined effects of prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and material hardship on child IQ. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 2015; DOI:10.1016/j.ntt.2015.04.002

19)Dockery D, Pope C, Xu X, et al. An Association Between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities. The New England Journal of Medicine, 1993; 329:1753-1759 DOI:10.1056/NEJM199312093292401

20)Newman J, Thurston G, Cromar K, et al. Particulate Air Pollution and Carotid Artery Stenosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2015; DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2014.12.052

21)Adar S, Sheppard L, Vedal S, et al. Fine Particulate Air Pollution and the Progression of Carotid Intima-Medial Thickness: A Prospective Cohort Study from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution. PLoS Med, 2013 DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001430

22)Kaufman J, Adar S, Barr G, et al. Association between air pollution and coronary artery calcification within six metropolitan areas in the USA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution): a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet, 2016 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00378-0

23)Yuanyuan C, Zhang B, Wiexie K, et al. Associations of Short-Term and Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants With Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association, May 2016 DOI:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.116.07218

24)Lambrechtsen J, Gerke O, Egstrup P, et al. The relation between coronary artery calcification in asymptomatic subjects and both traditional risk factors and living in city centre: a DanRisk substudy. Journal of Internal Medicine, 2012; 271(5):444 DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2796.2011.02486.x

25)Mustafic H, Jabre P, Caussin C, et al. Main Air Pollutants and Myocardial Infarction A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA. 2012 Feb 15; 307(7):713-721 doi:10.1001/jama2012.120

26)Buszman P, Derbisz K, Kwasiborski P, et al. Impact of air pollution on hospital patients admitted with ST and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in heavily polluted cities within the European Union. Cardiology Journal. 2018 Dec 19. doi:10.5603/CJ.a2018.0156

27)Sahlen A, Ljungman P, Erlinge D, et al. Air pollution in relation to very short-term risk of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Case-crossover analysis of SWEDEHEART. International Journal of Cardiology. 2019 Jan 15;275:26-30. doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.10.069

28)Pope C, Burnett R, Thun M, et al. Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution. JAMA. 2002Mar6; 287(9):1132-41.doi:10.1001jama.287.9.1132.

29)Turner M, Krewski D, Pope C, et al. Long-term ambient fine particulate matter air pollution and lung cancer in a large cohort of never smokers. American Journal of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine. 2011 Dec;184(12):1374-81. Epub 2011 Oct 6.

30)Crouse D, Goldberg M, Ross N, et al. Postmenopausal Breast Cancer is Associated with Exposure to Traffic-related Air Pollution in Montreal, Canada: A Case-Control Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1002221

31)Wong C, Tsang H, Lai H, et al. Cancer Mortality Risks from Long-term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particle Pollution. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 2016;25(5):839 DOI:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-15-0626

32)Power M, Kioumourtzoglou M, Hart J, et al. The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution and prevalent anxiety: observational cohort study. British Mediclal Journal, 2015; 350(mar23 11):h1111 DOI:10.1136/bmj.h1111

33)Brauer M. Air pollution, stroke, and anxiety. British Medical Journal, 2015; 350(mar23 11):h1510 DOI:10.1136/bmj.h1510

34)Rajper S, Ullah S, Li Z. Exposure to air pollution and self reported effects on Chinese students: A case study of 13 megacities. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone0194364 

35)Bakian A, Huber R, Coon H, et al. Acute Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Suicide Completion. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2015 Mar1;181(5):295-303 doi:10.1093/aje/kwu341

36)Lew B, Arvin M. Happiness and air  pollution: Evidence from 14 European countries. International Journal of Green Economics, 6(4):331-345 Jan 2012. DOI:10.1504/IJGE.2012.051492

37)Sade M, Kloog I, Liberty I, et al.  The Association Between Air Pollution Exposure and Glucose and Lipids Levels. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2016; jc.2016-1378 DOI:10.1210/jc.2016-1378

38)Bowe B, Xie Y, Li T, et al. The 2016 Global and National Burden of Diabetes Mellitus Attributable to PM 2.5 Air Pollution. The Lancet Planetary Health,  2018June 29 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30140-2

39)Cacciottolo M, Wang X, Driscoll I, et al. Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models. Translational Psychiatry, 2017; 7(1):e1022 DOI:10.1038/tp.2016.280

40)Calderon-Garcideunas L, Murkherjee P, Waniak K, et al. Non-Phosphorylated Tau in Cerebrospinal Fluid is a Marker of Alzheimer's Disease Continuum in Young Urbanites Exposed to Air Pollution. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2018;66(4):1437 DOI:10.3233/JAD-180853

41)The Coal Cost Crossover: Economic Viability of Existing Coal Compared to new local wind and solar resources. 3Mar 2019. Energy Innovation.  See https://energyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Coal-Cost-Crossover_Energy-Innovation_VCE_FINAL2.pdf

42)See XCel Energy's press release:  https://www.xcelenergy.com/company/media_room/news_releases/xcel_energy_aims_for_zero-carbon_electricity_by_2050

43)An Analysis of Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles. Missouris S&T's Peer to Peer1, (2).  See https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/peer2peer/vol1/iss2/2

44)Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave. How Electric Cars Beat Gasoline Cars on Lifetime Global Warming Emissions.  Union of Concerned Scientists. 2015.  see full PDF report:  https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cleaner-Cars-from-Cradle-to-Grave-full-report.pdf

45)See original EPA car efficiency standards on the EPA website at: https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/presidential-announcements-and-letters-support-related

46)See the report and map on NCAR's website at: https://news.ucar.edu/129774/scientists-pinpoint-sources-front-range-ozone

47)Loomis J, Haefele M. Quantifying Market and Non-market Benefits and Costs of Hydraulic Fracturing in the United States: a Summary of the Literature. Ecology Economics. Vol138. Aug2017. 160-167.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.03.036

48)Fann N, Baker K, Chan E, et al. Assessing Human Health PM2.5 and Ozone Impacts from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector Emissions in 2025. Environmental Science and Technology. 2018,52,15, 8095-8103. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b02050

49)Fann N, Baker K, Fulcher C. Characterizing the PM2.5-related health benefits of emission reductions for 17 industrial, area and mobile emission sectors across the U.S. Environmental International. 2012, 49, 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2012.08.017

50)Archer C, Brodie J, Rauscher S. Global Warming Will Aggravate Ozone Pollution in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2019; 58(6):1267 DOI: 10.1175JAMC-D-18-0263.1

51)Flannigan M, Cantin A, deGroot W, et al. Global Wildland Fire Season Severity in the 21st Century. Forest Ecology Management. 294, 54-61. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.10.022

52)Liu J, Mickley L, Sulprizio M, et al. Future respiratory hospital admissions from wildfire smoke under climate change in the Western US. Environmental Research Letters 8Dec2016, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124018

53)Patz J, Epstein P, Burke T, et al. Climate Change and emerging infectious diseases. Microbes and Infection. Vol3 Jul2001.pp747-754. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1286-4579(01)01429-0

54)Alexeeff S, Roy A, Shan J, et al. High-resolution mapping of traffic related air pollution with Google street view cars and incidence of cardiovascular events within neighborhoods in Oakland, CA. Environmental Health, 15May 2018. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/S12940-018-0382-1

55)EPA Clean Power Plan Fact Sheet  https://archive.epa.gov/epa/sites/production/files/2015-08/documents/fs-cpp-overview.pdf

56)Nurmagambetov T, Kuwahara R &  Garbe, P. The Economic Burden of Asthma in the United States, 2008 - 2013. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2018; DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201703-259OC

57)See Denver's 80x50 plan here:  https://www.denvergov.org/content/dam/denvergov/Portals/771/documents/EQ/80x50/DDPHE_80x50_ClimateActionPlan.pdf

58)Luber G, McGeehin M. Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events. American Journal of Preventative Medicine.  Vol 35. pp429-4435. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2008.08.021

59)Wu X, Lu Y, Zhou S, et al.  Impact of Climate Change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation. Environment International. Vol 86 Jan2016 pp14-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2015.09.007

60)Jerret M, Burnett R, Ma R, et al. Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles. Epidemiology 2005; 16: 727-736. DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000181630.15826.7d

61)Hill T, Jorgensen A, Ore P, et al. Air quality and life expectancy in the United States: An analysis of the moderating effect of income inequality. SSM-Population Health. 2019 Apr; 7: 100346. doi: 10.1016/jssmph.2018.100346

62)Ard, K. By all measures: an examination of the relationship between segregation and health risk from air pollution. Population and Environment 38, 1-20(2016). DOI 10.1007/s11111-015-0251-6

63)Clark L, Millet D, Marshall J. National Patterns in Environmental Injustice and Inequality: Outdoor NO2 Air Pollution in the United States. PLOS One. April 15, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094431

64)CLEARING THE AIR: How Electric Vehicles and Cleaner Trucks Can Help Reduce Pollution, Improve Health and Save Lives in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. see https://clearingtheair.ca/

(65) | Fracking Fumes: Air Pollution from Hydraulic Fracturing Threatens Public Health and Communities. Natural Resources Defense Council Issue Brief. November 2014. https://nrdc.org/sites/default/files/fracking-air-pollution-IB.pdf

(66)Thompson C, Hueber J, Helmig, D. Influence of oil and gas emissions on ambient atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbons in residential areas of Northeastern Colorado. Elem Sci Anth, 3, p.000035. DOI: http://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000035

(67)Helmig D.  Air quality impacts from oil and natural gas development in Colorado. Elem Sci Anth, 8(1), p.4. DOI: https://www.elementascience.org/articles/10.1525/elementa.398/

(68)Colorado’s vaunted oil and gas rules are flawed and inadequately enforced. By
by Daniel Glick, The Story Group - April 16, 2019, The Colorado Independent,  https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/04/16/colorado-fracking-rules-smog-methane/

(69)Flocke F, Pfister G, Crawford J, et al. Air Quality in the Northern Colorado Front Range Metro Area: The Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ) December 2019, JGR Atmospheres  https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JD031197

70)Wang J, Jeong C, Hilker N, et al. Near Road Air Pollutant Measurements: Accounting for Inter-site variability using emission factors. Environmental Science and Technology. 2018; 52. (16): 9495 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01914

71)Pan S, Roy A, Choi Y, et al. The air quality and health impacts of projected long-haul truck and rail freight transportation in the United States in 2050. Environment International, 2019; 130: 104922 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104922

72)See the Wired Article on Amazon's electric delivery vans here:  https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-all-electric-future-fleet-vehicles/

73)Visit the Regional Air Quality Council Web page for this statistic here: https://raqc.org/our_programs/mow-down-pollution/

74)Khreis H, de Hoogh K, Nieuenhuijsen MJ. Full-chain health impact assessment  of traffic related air pollution and childhood asthma. Environment International, 2018May;114:365-375. doi:10.1016/j.envint.2018.03.008

75)Bekkar B, Pacheco S, Basu R, et al. Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure With Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight, and Still birth in the US. A Systematic Review. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(6):e208243. doi:10.1001/jamanet-workopen.2020.8243