These findings illustrate that GHG mitigation can provide considerable local air pollution-related public health benefits to countries that choose to abate GHG emissions by reducing fossil fuel combustion.
In an article published last year in the American Economic Review, the economists Nicholas Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus mobilized considerable evidence that air pollution damages from coal-fired electricity generation, measured primarily in terms of health effects like premature mortality, exceeded the value added of the industry in 2002.
Survey and analysis of data, e.g., through i-Tree, prove that they remove considerable amounts of air pollution and reduce flooding etc.
An increasing number of people live near airports with considerable noise and air pollution.
An increasing number of people live in the vicinity of major airports and experience considerable noise and air pollution.
With respect to the individual components of the pollution mix, the results indicate considerable heterogeneity of air pollution effects in the different geographic locations.
There is considerable evidence that air pollution - specifically coarse and fine particulate matter, ozone, sulfur dioxides, and nitrogen oxides - is associated with increased rates of asthma, asthma morbidity, respiratory illness and diminished lung function in children [ 3– 8].
In India, solid fuel burning for cooking in rural kitchens causes a considerable amount of household air pollution (HAP) leading to an adverse effect on health.
Overall, the valley is site of considerable soil, water, and air pollution.
Despite considerable efforts to reduce air pollution, the environmental burden by UFPs may have increased rather than decreased over time (Kreyling et al. 2003).
