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Los Angeles, Chicago, New York to become a mini “Beijing” if they don’t control pollution

  Take a little road trip across parts of the United States and you see all kinds of factories off the highways, especially the smaller highways. You see factories with crude thick smoke bellowing out of pipes into the sky, slowly spreading out. You see chicken factories, paper mills, shipyards, among other industrial plants. If you have to cut through a metropolitan city, maybe one you’ve never even visited before, you get surprised, caught up in heavy traffic, highway fumes, road construction, smog from the skyscrapers, cranky sick people with attitude problems, and a whole host of pollution in downtown streets, gutters near bars and restaurants, and sometimes even medical waste. This is like a short nightmare that you can usually drive away from and simply evacuate, after your visit or your close encounters, but for some, they’re stuck, because they live there.   Close to 8.3 million in New York City   Close to 4 million people living in Los ...