A huge amount of air pollution comes from farming, not just power plants

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By Clayton AldernSep 18, 2015, 5:00 pm176 pts
A new study pegs a number to one of the trickiest scourges of industrialism: premature deaths caused by air pollution. Using high-resolution health statistics and a slew of mathematical models, researchers from Germany, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, and the United States estimate that smog and soot kill 3.3…

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