Soaring pollution levels in India’s capital have prompted officials to indefinitely close schools and some coal-based power plants. Siddharth Singh, an energy and climate analyst, and the author of “The Great Smog of India,” talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about the health implications and causes of the smothering smog.
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