MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 29, 2013
Barrett says that a person who dies from an air pollution-related cause typically dies about a decade earlier than he or she otherwise might have. The largest impact was seen in the east-central United States and in the Midwest: Eastern power plants tend to use coal with higher sulfur content than Western plants. —Caiazzo et al.
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