Fine-particle air pollution has decreased across the US, but poor and minority communities are still the most polluted
- Written by Jonathan Colmer, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Fresno, California and the surrounding San Joaquin Valley have some of the nation's highest levels of fine particle air pollution.AP Photo/Gary KazanjianAir pollution contributes to as many as 9 million premature deaths worldwide each year – twice as many as war, other violence, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Fine particulate...