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California air quality rules to tighten after cancer risk estimate triples
2015-06-07 14:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Factories and oil refineries in southern California face a new crackdown on their emissions of air toxins, after experts in the state reported that breathing in pollution carries almost three times the risk of causing cancer than was previously thought, especially for children and babies. Air quality regulators covering almost 11,000 square miles that are inhabited by almost 17 million people, including residents of Los Angeles, have approved new rules designed to help protect the public from...
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