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August 28, 2024
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August 29, 2024
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August 28, 2024
Air Pollution Remains the Greatest External Risk to Human Health as Most Countries Fail to Set or Meet Their Own Standards for Clean Air
While pollution slightly dipped due largely to a trend reversal in South Asia, more than three-quarters of countries around the world have not set or aren’t meeting national pollution standards.
In the News
August 27, 2024
via Nature India
Air pollution limits in India are too high to prevent deaths, study says
According to data from the Air Quality Life Index 2021, average life expectancy in India go up five years if levels of toxic particles were brought down to meet WHO specifications.
In the News
June 24, 2024
via Economic Times
Cleaning up Delhi’s air requires uncomfortable decisions involving rich people: Sunita Narain
According to a report compiled by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) in August, air pollution is shortening lives by almost 12 years in Delhi.
Analysis
June 6, 2024
via The Leaflet
How combating air pollution can also help create a more equal world
Air pollution is as much an equity and justice issue as it is an environmental issue, writes Tanushree Ganguly for The Leaflet.
In the News
May 23, 2024
Burdens of bad air
Poor air quality has reduced life expectancy for an average Nepalese resident by a staggering 4.6 years, finds the Air Quality Life Index of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
In the News
May 10, 2024
Dhaka’s unyielding air pollution
According to the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), after cardiovascular disease, particulate pollution is the second greatest threat to human health in terms of life expectancy in Bangladesh.
In the News
April 24, 2024
via Washington Post
Nearly 2 in 5 Americans breathe unhealthy air. Why it’s getting worse.
Fully implemented, the updated EPA standard on pollution would save 6.6 million more total years of life than the previous standard, largely in the West and Midwest, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago finds.
Analysis
April 22, 2024
Making Clean Air an Earth Day Priority
While global environmental activism has been successful in making plastics a part of the global agenda, air pollution—the world’s greatest external risk to human health—continues to remain on the margins of the conversation.
In the News
April 15, 2024
via Newage