EPA Staff Co-Wrote Study Linking Emissions to Death

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Sept. 13, 2018

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Media Highlight

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Climatewire

"A new study released yesterday by Resources for the Future, a Washington-based think tank, found that 47.6 million people in the United States live in an area that fails to meet the health standard for fine particle pollution, about twice the number originally thought."

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