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Air Pollution Kills 200,000 People in the US Every Year, Study Shows

2013-09-02 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: Air pollution is behind nearly 200,000 early deaths every year in the United States, according to a new study by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics and the study's lead author, those who die from air pollution-related causes do so on average 10 years earlier than they otherwise might have. Published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, the report utilizes emissions data from the Environmental...

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