{"id":181085,"date":"2024-09-22T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-curb-air-pollution-to-boost-public-health\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T17:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T15:30:23","slug":"ghana-curb-air-pollution-to-boost-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-curb-air-pollution-to-boost-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Curb Air Pollution to Boost Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for concerted efforts among stakeholders to curb the increasing levels of air pollution in the Greater Accra Region to protect public health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Unfortunately, the EPA has not been specific as to who these stakeholders are, but the <em>Ghanaian Times<\/em> can guess some of them, using information on the causes, management and regulation of air pollution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Generally, air pollution is caused by solid and liquid particles and certain gases that are suspended in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200300.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called for concerted efforts among stakeholders to curb the increasing levels of air pollution in the Greater Accra Region to protect public health. Unfortunately, the EPA has not been specific as to who these stakeholders are, but the Ghanaian Times can guess some of them, using information on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7832,6557,10637,4508,4509,5731,257,10362,5751,254],"class_list":["post-181085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-boost","tag-curb","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}