Risk and Air Pollution Assignment

Answer the following questions according to your understanding of the
articles:
1) What are the most interesting three takeaways for you from these
readings?
2) Does Asthma still pose a health risk for people living in the U.S. and in
the world? Why or why not?
3) What possible air pollution related factors (risk factors) influence
asthma or lung malfunctioning according to the research? What are
the sources of these factors according to the reading?
4) What has been done to reduce those factors mentioned in “2” already?
5) Picture yourself as the environmental engineer working for the EPA,
charged with the responsibility of assessing the risk associated with air
toxins for the future? How would you approach this? What steps would
you follow? Do you have enough information to make conclusions?
6) Do you believe that the current conditions a good indicator that we are
reducing the risk due to air toxins? Explain your reasoning.
Additional Specs:
? Use times new roman, 12pt, 1.5 paragraph spacing
? Total length should not exceed 2 pages.
? This homework will be assessed with “Safe Assign”, if you take
information from other sources remember to cite them.