{"567681":{"#nid":"567681","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Study: Trees may worsen Southeastern pollution","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERonald Reagan once sloughed off the need for tougher clean-air rules, blaming vegetation for pollution.\u0026nbsp;That simplistic notion was rebuffed by scientists who noted that trees help make overall air quality better by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nrs.fs.fed.us\/units\/urban\/local-resources\/downloads\/Tree_Air_Qual.pdf\u0022\u003Etaking up pollution\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and they also\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/07\/31\/science\/science-watch-city-trees-revisited.html\u0022\u003Ehelp\u0026nbsp;to cool\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;off urban areas, which also can translate into less pollution. So the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2014-07\/documents\/urbanheatislandpart-1use.pdf\u0022\u003Erecommends trees\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for cities dealing with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/tech\/science\/environment\/2016\/06\/15\/louisville-could-face-epa-action-ozone\/85886944\/\u0022\u003Ekind of pollution\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that\u0027s challenged Louisville for decades, including this summer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut trees do emit a chemical that can add to ground-level ozone. And a new study from Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that climate change could exacerbate that and extend the ozone season across the American Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32896","created_gmt":"2016-08-25 09:18:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:19","author":"Matt Barr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Clint Penick","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/tech\/science\/watchdog-earth\/2016\/08\/23\/study-trees-may-worsen-southeastern-pollution\/89197290\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"745","name":"air quality"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"169223","name":"ground-level ozone"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"169224","name":"Yuhang Wang"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}