(June 16, 2023 at 5:32 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Maybe oil companies could fund Medicare in the US
Oil and gas health impacts cost $77 billion per year, study finds
Air pollution from U.S. oil and natural gas production causes roughly $77 billion in health impacts nationwide every year, while also contributing to thousands of early deaths and health flare-ups, a new study finds.
Why it matters: It puts a price tag on one of the human costs of domestic oil and gas activity.
What they found: The pollutants nitrogen oxide, fine particulate matter and ozone from U.S. oil and gas production contributed to 7,500 excess deaths, 410,000 asthma attacks, and 2,200 new cases of childhood asthma across the U.S. in 2016, per the study published Monday in the journal Environmental Research: Health.
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/10/oil-gas...acts-study
This makes me even happier to no longer be a part of that fucked up industry!
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