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Study: Air Pollution Causes 200,000 Early Deaths in US Each Year

2013-08-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Voice of America: Air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year in the United States, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, say emissions from road transportation are the leading single cause of pollution, contributing 53,000 premature deaths, and that electrical power generation causes another 52,000. "In the past five to 10 years, the evidence linking air-pollution exposure to risk of early...

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