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August 28, 2024
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December 20, 2024
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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.
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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.
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August 9, 2022
Why we need to invest in air quality
We are losing more than two years off of the average human life expectancy across the world due to particulate pollution. Yet, our investment in tackling air pollution lags far behind the scale of the problem, writes AQLI's Christa Hasenkopf
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November 3, 2021
In Delhi’s Class Pyramid, Air Pollution is A Great Leveller
AQLI Director Ken Lee joins EPIC Director Michael Greenstone and Harshil Sahai in sharing insights from their recent research that found low awareness of indoor air pollution in Delhi.
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June 4, 2019
via WSJ
How Many Years of Life You Lose Because of Air Pollution
Michael Greenstone and Sam Ori write about how the AQLI identifies air pollution as the single greatest threat to human health globally.
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January 29, 2019
Indians could live up to three years more if there’s a 25% reduction in air pollution
India has set itself a challenging task by launching the National Clear Air Programme in its 'war against pollution'. The history of other countries, however, suggests that it can be done.
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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.
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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.
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March 12, 2018