MIT Study: Air Pollution Linked With Early Deaths In UK

Forbes: Well, it's official. Air pollution sends you to an early grave in the United Kingdom. In a recent study from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers Steve Barrett and Steve Yim report that emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants cause 13,000 premature deaths in the United Kingdom each year. Barret and Yim analyzed data from 2005 and found that car and truck exhaust was the single greatest contributor to premature death,...

URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2012/04/22/mit-study-air-pollution-linked-with-early-deaths-in-uk/
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