Health8/22/2025•The Guardian
Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study
The study analyzed the health impacts of fossil fuels, from exploration to end use, and found that air pollution from the oil and gas industry causes over 90,000 premature deaths and affects hundreds of thousands of people in the US each year. The study revealed that communities of color bear the brunt of this harm, with disproportionately high impacts. The authors linked more than 10,000 annual pre-term births to fine particulate matter, 216,000 annual childhood-onset asthma cases to nitrogen dioxide emissions, and 1,610 annual lifetime cancer cases to hazardous air pollutants from the oil and gas sector.
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