EcoWatch: [Editor's note: China's air quality issues are extreme (thanks in part to the U.S.'s enormous appetite for Chinese products), but the U.S. is also greatly compromised by poor air quality. Just last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strengthened air quality standards for particulate matter (PM2.5) or soot pollution. Soot pollution is the deadliest of the common air pollutants, causing thousands of premature deaths every year across the U.S. through a variety of cardiovascular and respiratory...
URL: http://ecowatch.org/2012/dangerous-breathing/
Enclosure: http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/Global/eastasia/publications/reports/climate-energy/2012/Briefing_dangerous%20breathing.pdf
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