emissions | Climate Adaptation Research Center

Premature death from cross-state air pollution decreases from 53% to 41%

by Sandra E Hemingway
August 26, 2020

Environment

It’s widely known through the Air Quality Research Center that outdoor air pollution leads to untimely deaths throughout the world, however, a recent publication by Dr. Erwan Monier, Associate Professor of Climate Change Impacts in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, and associates demonstrated that many of these deaths are a result of cross-state air pollution.

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