Nearly 5 million deaths worldwide in 2017 could be attributed to stroke, heat attack, diabetes, lung cancer and chronic lung disease that resulted from air pollution, a study found
On Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump finalized its rollback of President Obama's signature climate policy -- the Clean Power Plan, which aimed to reduce coal-fired power plant emissions. The administration will replace the plan with the Affordable Clean Energy Rule.
"The Affordable Clean Energy Rule, ACE, gives states the regulatory certainty they need to continue to reduce emissions and provide affordable and reliable energy for all Americans," EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said.When the draft proposal of the policy was announced in August, the agency's own risk analysis found that additional pollution under the new plan would result in up to 1,400 more premature deaths a year in the United States as of 2030.
The team found that both verbal and math scores"decreased with increasing cumulative air pollution exposure," with the decline in verbal scores being particularly pronounced among older, less-educated men.Cognitive decline and impairment, which could be caused by air pollution according to the study, are also potential risk factors in developing Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.
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