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Air Pollution Kills 3.3M/Yr, May Double; Diesel Health Problems; Industry, Montana Resist SO2 Standards
Study: Air pollution kills 3.3 million worldwide, may double. Air pollution is killing 3.3 million people a year worldwide, according to a new study that includes this surprise: Farming plays a large role in smog and soot deaths in industrial nations.
Diesel cars: What’s all the fuss about? Dirty engines spewing out noxious fumes that are polluting our cities, causing all manner of health problems, is the principal charge laid out in various reports splashed across the media this summer about diesel.
Industry groups, Montana press case against SO2 standard. Three industry groups and Montana today pressed federal appeals judges to reverse U.S. EPA’s determinations that three geographic areas failed to meet its air standard for sulfur dioxide, a harmful gas.
