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How Ground-level Ozone Affects the Way We Live and Breathe

Published by the US EPA 
Office of Air Quality Planning & Standards 
November 2000

Ground-level ozone is an air pollutant that causes human health problems, and damages crops and other vegetation.  It is a key ingredient of urban smog.
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Table of Contents
Ground-level Ozone: What is it? Where does it come from?

Chief Causes for Concern

Health and Environmental Impacts of Ground-level Ozone

EPA's Efforts to Reduce Ground-level Ozone


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