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Human cost of coal in the UK: 1600 lives a year
2013-12-04 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The days of pea-soupers may be long gone but Britons still suffer the effects of coal-burning power plants. In the UK, 1600 deaths per year and over 350,000 lost workdays can be attributed to air pollution from coal-burning, according to figures published this week by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), a non-profit group in Brussels. It also found that breathing fumes from coal-fired power stations is to blame for more than a million cases of respiratory symptoms, for example, wheezing...
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