Lorena Zuniga

Shuv Raj Rana Bhat

RWS 1301
Annotated Bibliography based on the research question,
How does air pollution affect the environment and peoples health?
1. Ball, J. (2000, February 7). In Texas, a War Over Big Cars And Dirty Air. Wall Street
Journal - Eastern Edition. p. B1.
Ball talks about how Texas currently has a lot of problems caused by the emissions that
cars have. Air pollution is becoming a big issue in Texas because a lot of people have cars
so the emissions are increasing in a rate we all should be concerned of. The United States
government has demand the state because of the quality of the air. Everybody thinks this
demand will really affect the automobile industry.
2. Harder, B. (2005). Can polluted air cause birth defects? Science News, 168(10), 158.
Harder talks about the relationship between air pollution and birth defects. He talks about
the heart problems that prenatal exposure to air pollution can cause. He also refers to
studies that scientist have done in order to find out if air pollution actually affects us. In
addition, he shared that Epidemiologists have records of the quantity and quality of the
air in our surroundings to find out the increase in pollution.
3. Peters, A., Liu, E., Verrier, R. L., Schwartz, J., Gold, D. R., Mittleman, M., Dockery, D.
W.. (2000). Air Pollution and Incidence of Cardiac Arrhythmia. Epidemiology, 11(1), 11
17. Retrieved from http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/3703647
Peters, Liu, Verrier, Schwartz, Gold, Mittleman, and Dockery talk discuss how air
pollution contributes to cardiac complications. Researches have associated air pollution
to several cardiac difficulties. They discuss that a lot of the people that went to he
hospital because of heart problems had some kind of pollution in their body. Also there
were cases where it was the other way. People that had been exposed to pollution in the
air had developed heart complications.

4. Pope, C. A., Bates, D. V., & Raizenne, M. E.. (1995). Health Effects of Particulate Air
Pollution: Time for Reassessment?. Environmental Health Perspectives, 103(5), 472
480. http://doi.org/10.2307/3432586
Pope, Bates, and Raizenne discuss in detail how air pollution is affecting people all over
the world. They describe a lot of cases from people that suffer from respiratory problems,
chronic respiratory diseases, non-smoking adult symptoms, and so on. As they mentioned
in the article, some pollutants are more dangerous than other ones, but we all are exposed
to all of them without even noticing.
5. Vernon G. MacKenzie B. S.(1958). Progress Report on Air Pollution. Public Health Reports
(1896 1970), 73(1), 3941. http://doi.org/10.2307/4590036
Vernon and Mackenzie talk about how the increase in population could be a factor of why
we have so much air pollution. They also discuss about other factors, for example, the
changes on how we use fuels, the increase in the use of energy, and the increase in the use
of materials. They said that air pollution does not affect only us humans, but that it also
affects animals, vegetation, and physical structures. They talk about the effects that air
pollution can have in us, such as: eye irritation, respiratory irritation, serious illnesses that
could even cause our death. In addition, they talk about some laws that the government is
implementing in order to prevent more pollution from going into our atmosphere, and
some health programs that are specializing in air pollution problems.
6. Winner, W. E.. (1994). Mechanistic Analysis of Plant Responses To Air
Pollution. Ecological Applications, 4(4), 651661. http://doi.org/10.2307/1941998
Winner focuses on how plants are reacting to all the pollution that most of human
activities produce. His article mainly focuses on four points : Air pollution definition, air
pollution uptake, compensatory responses, and air pollution and multiple stresses. In his
first point he says that the definition of air pollution expands consistently because it was
fist a simple definition talking about how it affect the environment, then they add the
effects it has on people, and now they adding the effects it has on plants. Winners second

point talks more of what scientist are doing in order to remove the pollution from the
atmosphere. Every day the way they do it is upgrade in order to work better. On his third
point he states that plants are starting to adapt the environmental stress the pollution is
doing and that is making them work more and produce more oxygen. Finally, in his
fourth point he is just explaining what is considered a stress in the environment and how
can we identify it.
7. Zora, J. E., Sarnat, S. E., Raysoni, A. U., Johnson, B. A., Li, W., Greenwald, R., & ... Sarnat,
J. A. (2013). Associations between urban air pollution and
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.067pediatric asthma control in El Paso, Texas. Science
Of The Total Environment, 44856-65.
Zora, Sarnat, Ratsoni, Johnson, and Greenwald discuss how cars and any other type of
transportation is what contributes the most to air pollution. They talk about how hard it is
to prevent this contribution of pollutants. Today, the usage of cars or buses is inevitable
which makes it harder to not contribute to the air pollution. The carbon dioxide emissions
car have is something that is a big part of most of the respiratory illnesses such as asthma.
In addition, they discuss some strategies we could use in order to reduce the pollution that
most of the ways of transportation produce.