Out-of-State Emissions Cause Half Air Pollution Deaths

More than half of all early deaths in the United States due to poor air quality are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, report researchers with the ... Read More

Half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state ...

In general, the researchers found that out-of-state air pollution was associated with more than half of all pollution-related early deaths in the U.S. from 2005 to 2018. Read More

Almost half of all air pollution deaths are caused by out-of-state emitters

Air pollution isn’t just a local problem. Tailpipe emissions within a city affect the lungs of those living in the vicinity, but wind can also carry particles like ozone and particulate matter ... Read More

Nearly half of Americans breathe unhealthy air, report finds

The latest findings reveal that around 156 million Americans — nearly half the U.S. population — now live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution, a troubling surge fueled by climate ... Read More

World's richest 1% emitting enough carbon to cause heat-related deaths ...

The amount of carbon dioxide emissions the top 1% was reported to have produced in 2019 — 5.9 billion tonnes — is enough to change global temperatures enough to lead to the deaths of an ... Read More

Air pollution: Half of U.S. deaths are from out-of-state emissions

In fact, over half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the U.S. are from pollution emissions from outside of the state in which those deaths occur, according to a new study. Read More

Half the air pollution deaths in the U.S. linked to out-of-state emissions

Over half the deaths due to poor air quality occurring in the U.S. are because of emissions from outside the state in which the deaths occur, according to a new study published in February 2020 in ... Read More