Air Pollution Contributes to More Than 20,000 Deaths a Year By NICHOLAS BAKALARDEC. 27, 2017
Day-to-day increases in air pollution, even at levels generally considered acceptable, are associated with increased deaths among the elderly.
Previous studies have suggested an association, but most have been based on small populations in metropolitan areas. This new study, in JAMA, used Medicare files and nationwide air pollution data to estimate 24-hour exposure in people who died between 2000 and 2012.
The researchers found that for each day-to-day increase of 10 micrograms per square meter in fine pariculate matter (PM 2.5), the small particles of soot that easily enter the lungs and bloodstream, there was a 1.05 percent increase in deaths. For each 10 parts per billion increase in ozone, a main component of smog, there was a 0.51 percent increase.
The effect was greater for low-income people, African-Americans, women and those over 70, and the risk remained significant even at levels below what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
“This translates to PM 2.5 causing an extra 20,000 deaths a year,” said a co-author, Joel D. Schwartz, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard. “Separately, a 10 parts per billion decrease in ozone would save 10,000 lives per year.”
This amounts to more deaths per year than caused by AIDS, Dr. Schwartz said. “But unlike AIDS, we know the cure: scrubbers on coal-burning power plants that don’t have them, and reduction in nitrogen oxide emissions because they drive the production of ozone.”
Lolol If it wasn't so dire it would be hilarious, it's a full court press justifying anything that is for the destruction/reduction and elimination of government regulations in every facet of influence it has. Used to think it was an elimination of anything Obama era connected/related, but it goes way beyond that starting point. We're talking about the continuation of the GWB aerial attack and sidelining of the Nixonian generated "Clean Air and Water Acts" Pendulum swing is happening in a big way.
US EPA To Review Clean Air Act & Clean Water Act In Search Of “Regulatory Burdens” “The Interior Department submitted what it called an ‘energy burdens’ report to the president, which outlines some Obama-era regulations it has started to reverse or reform, or has plans to. This includes lifting the moratorium on coal leases on federal land, reviewing regulations on fracking on federal and tribal land, developing a five-year plan for offshore drilling and streamlining the federal leasing program and permitting process.” https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/31/us-epa-review-clean-air-act-clean-water-act-search-regulatory-burdens/
Bottom line is just like the GWB administration was beholden to big oil [IE: the 50+ meetings in the white house with executive privilege that gave us Fracking, bypassing the clean water act with regards to fracking fluids] The Trump Administration is all that and a bag of fries on turbo steroids, attacking any regulations that inhibit any industry in all sectors with regards to profit margins, all in the name of $Making America Great Again$. It's all about $Money$, $Power$ and $Control$, everything else is window dressing.
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