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A Place Where No One Breathes Easy -
California's San Joaquin Valley Has High
Asthma Rates And The Worst Air Pollution In
The U.S.
Air Pollution's Global Toll - U.N. Group
Says 2 Million Each Year Die Prematurely As
A Result Of Bad Air
Panel:
Global Warming Caused By Humans -
Delegates From 113 Countries Agree There's
90% Chance Climate Change Caused By Humans
Study:
Polluted Air Harms Women's Hearts - Fine
Particles Increase Older Women's Risk Of
Heart Disease. Postmenopausal women,
regardless of any risk factors for
cardiovascular disease (CVD), are at
increasing risk for fatal and nonfatal
cardiovascular (CV) events with greater
long-term exposure to fine particulate air
pollution, according to an analysis from the
Women's Health Initiative (WHI).
Recent Newspaper Articles
New York Times -
Highway Exhaust Stunts Lung Growth: A
new study suggests that children who grow up
within a third of a mile of a freeway may be
sustaining permanent respiratory problems.
New York Times - A Study Links
Trucks’ Exhaust to Bronx Schoolchildren’s
Asthma - In New York City, air pollution
levels have typically been monitored by
inanimate objects, at more than a dozen
locations around town. But in the South
Bronx, from 2002 to 2005, air pollution
monitors went mobile. They went to the
playground, to the gritty sidewalks, even to
the movies. Insert file A Study Links
Trucks’ to Bronx Schoolchildren’s Asthma
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