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Ozone? Oh, yeah: Valley’s sunlight helps create pollution problem

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By Jaime Purvis

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013
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Phoenix faces pollution problems like any big city, but there's an additional challenge in the Valley of the Sun: Vehicle emissions react with sunlight to create ground-level ozone, which can cause health problems. Cronkite News' Jaime Purvis reports.

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