October 24, 2019
OUR TWO PRO-LIFE PARTIES:
Study: US air pollution deaths increased by 9,700 a year from 2016 to 2018 (Dylan Matthews, Oct 24, 2019, Vox)
Air pollution is killing more people during the Trump administration than it was under President Obama. Air pollution was responsible for 9,700 more deaths in 2018 than it was in 2016, according to a new paper by economists at Carnegie Mellon. [...]This is despite the fact that there's a large and growing body of research implicating fine particle pollution in everything from lower school test scores to lower work productivity to deaths (particularly in the elderly). Just in 2019 alone, studies have come out associating particulate pollution with violent crime, lower GDP, childhood stunting in India, and increased mortality.We have decades of experience preventing this kind of pollution through regulatory action, and the emerging evidence base suggests that doing so could save lives, prevent crime, and grow the economy.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 24, 2019 4:01 AM