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Human Health Tragedies

Carbon fuel combustion causes many health problems.  Among these are diseases of the lungs, heart, and circulatory system, autism, cancer and more.  If  carbon-fuel combustion's dollar cost to human health could be calculated, it would far exceed the cost to build a clean energy economy.

Going to school in a high traffic area increases asthma risk
Link to USC study

Freeway pollution increases autism risk
Link to LA Times article on 2010 Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles



Freeway pollution causes brain damage in mice
Link to LA Times article on USC study


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