More than 30,000 deaths in the United States in a single year may have been caused by air pollution, according to a new study
Those deaths came even as almost every county in the United States remained within federal air quality standards. That suggests more stringent regulations are needed to protect human health, researchers say.
But actually tightening air quality standards -- which would improve everyone's health -- may be challenging. Although the health benefits of large pollution reductions in major metropolitan areas are"widely acknowledged," the study said,"there is policy resistance to actions that would further lower the concentrations of pollutants."To Ezzati, though, the science is clear.
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