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Remember those smog-free skies after the lockdown? They shouldn’t be forgotten. | Opinion Updated 11:29 AM; Today 11:29 AM A Rutgers professor and a local environmentalist say New Jersey ranks near the bottom among states for multiple clean air metrics and, according to a Harvard University study, 17,646 premature deaths occur each year in New Jersey due to long-term exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion. Facebook Share By Rob Laumbach and Hayley Berliner When COVID-19 induced lockdowns first started, we were inundated with reports that air quality in New Jersey was the cleanest it had been in over a decade. The main reason air quality improved? Nobody was traveling anywhere!

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