Air pollution prematurely killing 13, 000 people a year in Britain, says study

Guardian: Air pollution is prematurely killing 13,000 people a year in Britain compared with fewer than 2,000 deaths a year from road accidents, a major study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has concluded. Of these, cars and lorries are thought to be responsible for 7,000 deaths, aviation almost 2,000, power plants 1,700 with the rest coming from shipping, factories and domestic emissions. But the report suggested that environment secretary Caroline Spelman may have been wrong to say earlier...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/20/air-pollution-killing-13000-people-year
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