Study: Global Cancer Risk From Burning Organic Matter Comes From Unregulated Chemicals

ENN
Sep 22, 2021, 4:46 pm233 pts
Whenever organic matter is burned, such as in a wildfire, a power plant, a car’s exhaust, or in daily cooking, the combustion releases polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) — a class of pollutants that is known to cause lung cancer.

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