New research suggests current air pollution standards are failing to protect human health and life.
In this study, researchers found lower income communities and black Americans were the worst affected by high levels of PM2.5, while counties in"swaths" of the Midwest, Appalachia and states like Ohio, Louisiana and Missouri had some of the highest rates of deaths linked to air pollution.
Not only were black people more likely to be exposed to higher levels of pollution, but the researchers found they appeared to be more affected, and were likely to become sicker, from it too. The model's calculations suggest that every year there may be more than 55,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease that is caused, ultimately, by poor air quality. A further 40,000 deaths from cerebrovascular disease, 19,000 deaths from dementia and 17,500 deaths from lung cancer were also linked to PM2.5 exposure. In total, the researchers estimated there may be almost 200,000 deaths caused by levels of pollution that meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standard.
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