AQLI News
August 28, 2024
In the News
September 6, 2018
via The Wire
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In the News
August 13, 2018
via Mirror Now News
Over half billion Indians exposed to hazardous air, Delhiites dying 6 years prematurely
Mirror Now News references findings from EPIC's Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) tool, which calculates how air pollution affects life expectancy by location.
In the News
August 13, 2018
Excessive air pollution affects 660 million Indians: Researchers
The New Indian Express refers to EPIC's air quality life index (AQLI), a metric that provides a means to predict the overall reduction in life expectancy caused by living in places with high levels of air pollution, as a tool to help improve air quality.
Analysis
July 19, 2018
China’s Air Pollution Edges Back from the Brink
It is well known that air pollution is harmful to human health. What is much less known is how it specifically affects people over the long term. China’s Huai River policy, which dispensed free coal to northern China for winter heating, has inadvertently revealed to us that air pollution literally shaves years off our lives. But China has made considerable progress in confronting this pollution, writes EPIC Director Michael Greenstone.
In the News
June 16, 2018
via Times of India
Surat’s Air Pollution at Hazardous Levels
EPIC's AQLI tool is cited in a story about high levels of particulate matter in Surat, India.
Analysis
June 13, 2018
Delhi air pollution hits hazardous levels, but it’s not the capital’s problem alone
Santosh Harish, Associate Director - Research for EPIC-India, dispels three myths about air pollution in India and explains the research and science behind AQLI.
In the News
April 18, 2018
China fights big smog with big air purifier
The Straits Times quote a University of Chicago study from 2017 that air pollution in northern China had cut life expectancy by three years compared with the south of the country.
In the News
April 16, 2018
via Marketplace
U.S. businesses worried over Chinese policy initiative
Marketplace references EPIC Director Michael Greenstone's report on government management of air quality.
In the News
April 9, 2018
via Radio Free Asia