{"id":70639,"date":"2025-12-14T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:55:08","slug":"manhattan-air-pollution-dips-after-congestion-pricing-takes-effect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/70639\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan air pollution dips after congestion pricing takes effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manhattan\u2019s air pollution has fallen by a fifth since the introduction of New York City\u2019s congestion charge, research said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Municipal data had previously shown that traffic had fallen inside the Congestion Relief Zone, and that crashes, delays, and noise complaints are down since the program was introduced in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The new study looked at airborne particulate matter in and outside the CRZ and found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44407-025-00037-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:it had fallen 22% inside the zone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">it had fallen 22% inside the zone<\/a> and by smaller amounts across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Significant air-quality improvements have followed congestion programs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2210670725003452\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paris;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paris<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/media-centre\/mayors-press-releases\/new-evidence-reveals-all-londoners-are-now-breathing-cleaner-air-following-first-year-expanded-ultra\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:London;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Air pollution has been <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencefictionspod.substack.com\/p\/episode-45-air-pollution?utm_source=publication-search\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:declining in the West for years;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">declining in the West for years<\/a> but still likely shortens lives by several months in big cities. Meanwhile, India said it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-sets-its-own-air-standards-global-rankings-not-official-government-tells-parliament\/article70387115.ece\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:setting its own;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">setting its own<\/a> air standards.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"799\" height=\"616\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9e1c50854f4d738745d774d134684b08.jpeg\"\/>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Chivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan\u2019s air pollution has fallen by a fifth since the introduction of New York City\u2019s congestion charge, research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[583,36257,36256,75,84,83,36258,9,24,12155,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-70639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-air-pollution","9":"tag-airborne-particulate-matter","10":"tag-congestion-charge","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-municipal-data","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-noise-complaints","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}