Getting rid of pollution improves public health a lot faster than you’d think

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By Emily PontecorvoDec 6, 2019, 1:40 pm250 pts
After decades of steadily declining, air pollution is once again on the rise in the United States. Between 2016 and 2018, pollution of fine particulate matter — tiny particles that are emitted whenever we burn anything — rose by more than 5 percent. That’s terrible news for Americans’ health. The…

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