Deadly Particulates
Living on Earth’s Kim Motylewski reports on the latest study linking particulate air pollution ? microscopic airborne grit ? to higher death rates, even at levels the EPA calls safe. Scientists say that particulates cause up to sixty thousand premature deaths each year in the United States.
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