{"id":72371,"date":"2026-04-22T05:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/nearly-half-of-us-children-are-breathing-dangerous-levels-of-air-pollution-report-warns\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:54:52","slug":"nearly-half-of-us-children-are-breathing-dangerous-levels-of-air-pollution-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/nearly-half-of-us-children-are-breathing-dangerous-levels-of-air-pollution-report-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA\u2019s expansive rollback of environmental protections <\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump\u2019s expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse.<\/p>\n<p>The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone \u2013 also known as smog \u2013 as well as year-round and short-term spikes in particle pollution, commonly referred to as soot. The report analyzed quality-assured data collected between 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/air-pollution-report-dangerous-levels-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Lung Association report comes amid Trump EPA\u2019s expansive rollback of environmental protections Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump\u2019s expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the &#8230; <a title=\"Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/nearly-half-of-us-children-are-breathing-dangerous-levels-of-air-pollution-report-warns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nearly half of US children are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, report warns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}