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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) greenhouse gas emissions monitoring program has found that Americans are in for a "dangerous" climate change — with a "huge" increase in air pollution and a "very bad" one.
The 287-page report, released Friday, reveals that the rise in emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal, has increased a "dangerous" level of air pollution, leaving many Americans "in a state of air pollution that is increasing at a rate not seen in their lifetime."
The report is the latest in a series of reports by the agency.
The EPA has been trying to figure out how to stop the increase in air pollution from burning of fossil fuels; that's a big commitment.
In the report, the agency found a "significant increase" in the total number of air pollutants in the U.S. from 2010 to 2015, an increase of 11.4 percent, or about the same as the total of all the air pollutants from the past decade.
"The increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels has resulted in a significant increase in air pollution in the U.S. and in the U.S. Midwest," the government said.
The agency's report said an "increasing percentage" of the increase stems from the increase in CO2 emissions, and that the amount of that increase is "very, very significant."
"This increase is very significant," said the report, which it said is "a significant challenge" to the EPA's efforts to reduce the amount of current air pollution in the U.S.
"The report is the first evidence that the overall increase in air pollution in the U.S. is a major problem for the U.S. economy and the environment," said a White House official.
The report also showed that the number of air pollution-increasing "dangerous" levels is nearly double the rate of the last 15 years.
Overall, the EPA said that the total number of air pollution-increasing levels in the United States has increased by about a third in the last 15 years.
The report said that the increase in air pollution has been especially "dangerous" in the Midwest, where the air is so polluted that most people live in "a state of air pollution that is increasing at a rate not seen in their lifetime."
The report was released for the first time in a series of new, completed projects by the EPA.
The U.S. has spent $7.4 billion on climate and other air pollution monitoring for the last decade, while the agency has spent about $1.1 billion on other measures.
The report found that in the past 15 years, the United States has increased the number of air pollution-increasing levels by more than 3,000 percent in the Midwest, and by almost 1,000 percent in the U.S. Midwest.
The EPA said the increase in air pollution has caused a "shocking" increase in the number of people in the U.S. who are "in a state of air pollution that is increasing at a rate not seen in their lifetime."
The report said that in the past 15 years, the United States has increased the number of air pollution-increasing levels by about 4,000 percent in the Midwest, and by about 4,000 percent in the U.S. Midwest.
The U.S. has spent $7.4 billion on climate and other air pollution monitoring for the last decade, while the agency has spent about $1.1 billion on other measures.
The new report is part of a larger effort by the EPA to figure out how to stop the increase in air pollution from burning fossil fuels.
The federal government will release the report Friday.
This story was provided by the Associated Press.
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Related<|endoftext|>In the late 1800s, a group of young men from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst began getting into the habit of giving up their guns and starting a new life in Massachusetts. The men had been fighting the federal government for years, and in the end won a bounty of $200 for each man whose guns they had given away.
The men's guns, they said, "were a useless tool, a useless weapon, a useless weapon.... I was fired at and killed by an enemy officer; I was shot with a rifle and shot my way through the crowd."
The men were, of course, not the only ones, and the fight was, as their followers thought, a fact of the war.
The agents of the federal government were in the habit of taking their guns with them when they were out in the field, and even taking them in the face, and, if they were at all a little too nervous, killing them.
Most of the men were perfectly at ease when they decided to take their guns
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