In January, the DF only breathed dirty air

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The civil association El Poder del Consumidor denounced that during 32% of the days in January, the concentrations of PM10 and ozone exceeded the health protection limits of Mexican regulations.

According to official reports from the Atmospheric Monitoring System (SIMAT), the population of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico breathed dirty air throughout January.

An analysis prepared by the civil association El Poder del Consumidor AC (@elpoderdelc) reveals that during the 31 days of January the levels of particles smaller than 10 microns (PM10) registered “regular” or “poor” air quality.

Likewise, the organization reported that during 32% of the days in January, the concentrations of PM10 and ozone exceeded the health protection limits of Mexican regulations, causing poor air quality; Added to this are the 29 days of the month in which ozone concentrations also exceeded 50 IMECA, affecting the health of the population.

In this way, El Poder del Consumidor denounces that these Europe Cell Phone Number List figures demonstrate that official strategies are not giving the expected results to significantly reduce air pollution and called on state and federal authorities so that “official Mexican standards adhere to international standards, especially those recommended by the World Health Organization.”

The most recent epidemiological evidence demonstrates that particulate air pollution (PM10, PM2.5) causes respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and eventually causes death.



According to the WHO Global Burden of Disease study, air pollution from fine particles is the second cause of death for girls and boys aged 0 to 6 days, and the seventh cause of death for all ages.

PM10 (large) particles can remain in the air for minutes or hours. They enter your body when you breathe, so the air and particles travel to your respiratory system (your lungs and airways). Along the way the particles stick to the walls of the airways or travel deep into the lungs.Then the oil company sued the Ecuadorian State before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. Ecuador's defense argued, among many other arguments, that the court's arbitration tribunal was not competent, since the bilateral investment treaty between Ecuador and the United States was signed in 1993 and came into force in 1997, five years after the end of Texaco's investments in Ecuador.

However, and despite the fact that said treaty does not have retroactive effects, the court considered itself competent and ordered the government of Ecuador to suspend the execution of the sentence, something that the Ecuadorian Executive, Rafael Correa, cannot do within the constitutional framework.

Rosendo Serrano, federal representative and president of the Group of Friends of Mexico and Ecuador, pointed out that in this country we are going backwards. He assured that there is no transnational company in the world that has a social conscience. On the contrary, they pollute more in the countries where they are established. While other countries like Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina are kicking out these companies, we are opening the doors to them.