Re: Deaths from fossil fuel burning air pollution

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 11:10 AM 11/29/00 -0600, Bernard Cohen wrote:
>
>The people who do these studies have concluded that fine particulate (<2.5
microns) is a suitable surrogate for fossil fuel burning pollution.
>
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I wish this were the case. Actually, they really believe that the fine
particles per se are the cause of the small increases in mortality and
morbidity that they observe. That is why EPA has been funding fine particle
effects studies.

Otto

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