Factors Affecting Windsor's Air Quality

For the past five decades, Windsor's air quality has been considered the worst in all of Canada. In 2016, Windsor was at low risk with a three in the air quality health index. This air quality has developed over the centuries and has gotten worse as the years have progressed. There are many factors that have led to Windsor's dreadful air quality, some if these factors include transportation fumes, local industrial pollution, and the inconvenience of sharing a border with an overly polluted country.

One major factor that greatly pollutes the air is transportation fumes. Windsor in particular has a large number of vehicles due to its border location. Thus, Windsor gets around double the amount of transportation fumes than a city away from a border. These fumes are created when gasoline is burned and it produces carbon dioxide. This is affecting Windsor's air quality and plays a vital role in the air pollution that is seen today.
This pollution continues to affect Windsor's air quality and it produces many smogs. An example of this is in 2011 when Windsor had the highest number of smog advisory days with eight. Therefore, Windsor's air quality has been impacted in a negative wag due to local industrial pollution.

The most paramount factor is the fact that Windsor is downwind from the U.S.A. This means that we receive a high concentration of the U.S.A's fumes. This is a serious problem, considering the fact that Windsor has enough pollutants as it is, thus, adding the fumes of another country will only make the air quality worse. An environmental health researcher said, "We get more than our fair share of these toxic chemical exposures … Windsor is particular because historically we're right in the industrial heartland of the United States." Therefore, this is a major factor that has strongly led to Windsor's air