- 18 Jun 2018 04:40
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In October 2013, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization agency concerned with cancer causes and control, classified “outdoor air pollution” as a cause of cancer. The Working Group convened by IARC, a multidisciplinary group of scientists, found the evidence to be sufficiently strong to classify outdoor air pollution as a Group 1 carcinogen, indicating that the evidence is definitive.
Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health.
The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States, and found that such air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year.
The EPA under Trump has been leading a unprecedented unraveling of not just climate regulation, but of the agency's basic clean air and water mandates. Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has ignored or denied pleas from several states to address ground-level ozone, or smog, a pollutant at the core of the agency's work since its inception 48 years ago.
As Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt has sued 14 times to block clean air and water safeguards from EPA, the agency he now leads. New research shows that in every suit except one, at least one of Pruitt’s co-litigators contributed to Pruitt’s campaign or a political action committee affiliated with Pruitt – directly, or via an employee or member.
These co-litigators include some of the biggest polluters in the nation who stand to gain the most by blocking bedrock clean air and clean water safeguards.
Hey, let's spend $40,000,000,000 to build a wall next to Mexico and create one of the biggest white elephants in history while, at the same time, increase levels of cancer and death throughout the land.
Researchers from MIT’s Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment have come out with some sobering new data on air pollution’s impact on Americans’ health.
The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States, and found that such air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year.
The EPA under Trump has been leading a unprecedented unraveling of not just climate regulation, but of the agency's basic clean air and water mandates. Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has ignored or denied pleas from several states to address ground-level ozone, or smog, a pollutant at the core of the agency's work since its inception 48 years ago.
As Oklahoma Attorney General, Scott Pruitt has sued 14 times to block clean air and water safeguards from EPA, the agency he now leads. New research shows that in every suit except one, at least one of Pruitt’s co-litigators contributed to Pruitt’s campaign or a political action committee affiliated with Pruitt – directly, or via an employee or member.
These co-litigators include some of the biggest polluters in the nation who stand to gain the most by blocking bedrock clean air and clean water safeguards.
Hey, let's spend $40,000,000,000 to build a wall next to Mexico and create one of the biggest white elephants in history while, at the same time, increase levels of cancer and death throughout the land.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897
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