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| 9/23/2004 | |
| While air quality has improved in the last three decades, half of all Americans live in counties where air pollution exceeds national health standards.* Most of these places suffer from high levels of ozone and/or particle pollution. Ozone is the country's most pervasive air pollutant; particle pollution is the nation's deadliest air pollutant. | |
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| 9/1/2005 | |
| Power plants are the largest industrial source of U.S. air emissions of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that poses serious health hazards. Mercury is particularly harmful to the developing brain; even low level exposure can cause learning disabilities, developmental delays, lowered IQ, and problems with attention and memory. | |
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| 6/9/2004 | |
| Asthma attacks, respiratory disease, heart attacks, and premature deaths—all of these are among the serious public health problems caused by air pollution from the electric power sector. In 2000, the Clean Air Task Force, on behalf of the Clear the Air cam-paign, commissioned Abt Associates to quantify the health impacts of fine particle air pollution from power plants. | |
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| 4/6/2005 | |
| Power plants are the largest source of U.S. emissions of mercury, a bioaccumulative neurotoxin that poses serious health hazards even in minute amounts. Mercury is particularly harmful to the developing brains of infants and young children; mercury exposure can cause vision and hearing difficulties, developmental delays, lowered IQ, problems with memory, and attention deficits. | |
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