Oil, gas production air pollution impacts thousands of asthma cases, exacerbations
Air pollution from oil and gas production contributed to 7,500 excess deaths, 410,000 asthma attacks and 2,200 new cases of childhood asthma across the nation in 2016, according to a study published in Environmental Research: Health. Oil and gas production also was responsible for $77 billion in annual health costs, Jonathan J. Buonocore, ScD, MS, assistant professor of environmental health,
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