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Air Pollution Blamed for 500,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Each Year

HeadlineOct 30, 2018

In environmental news, a new report from the European Environment Agency finds air pollution causes more than half a million premature deaths in Europe each year. This comes as the U.N. released another report Monday finding that 93 percent of all children live in areas with excessively high levels of fine particulate matter.

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