More than 92% of Americans live in a region with unsafe air pollution, which could lead to reduced life expectancy, per the latest University of Chicago Air Quality Life Index.
What they're saying:
"Don't light things on fire and breathe it into your lungs," Erika Moseson, a pulmonologist on the American Thoracic Society Environmental Health Policy Committee, told Axios.In Mariposa County, which makes up part of Yosemite National Park; residents could gain 1.7 years of life expectancy if air quality there met new WHO standards,Improving air quality is tantamount to improving health outcomes, and the U.S. still has a long way to go.
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