Saturday, July 21, 2012

Smog Rules Could Have Saved Thousands of Lives Annually

Yale Environment 360: By declining to implement tougher regulations on smog last fall, President Obama rejected measures that could have saved several thousand lives a year and prevented millions of cases of asthma attacks and other acute respiratory problems, according to a new study. Reporting in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, scientists from Johns Hopkins University said that the tougher smog rules would have prevented 2,400 to 4,100 additional deaths annually from cardiac and respiratory problems....

URL: http://e360.yale.edu/digest/smog_rules_could_have__saved_thousands_of_lives_annually/3556/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YaleEnvironment360+%28Yale+Environment+360%29

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