ADVISORY/Study: Pollution Controls Could Save Many Lives.

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ADVISORY...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2001

TOPIC: A new study spearheaded by a professor at Carnegie Mellon says that
adopting greenhouse gas abatement technology now could save as many as 64,000
lives over the next 20 years in four of the world's major cities. According to
a story in USA Today, the researchers studied the health effects of pollution
from fossil-fuels on death rates in Santiago, Chile; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mexico
City and New York and found that the emissions do not only effect global
climate but also public health. The researchers estimated that cutting
pollution from fossil fuels might also prevent about 65,000 cases of chronic
bronchitis in the studied cities, the story said. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can
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Chris Fox is an Environmental Sciences Professor at The Community College of Baltimore County. He is an expert in the fields of global warming, environmental careers, environmental technologies and energy use and technologies. 410/455-4538; [e-mail] or PR: Bonnie Stecker 410/869-7153;[e-mail]

Richard Eckhaus is an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with his area of concentration in problems of developing areas. In particular, I have worked in and on the following countries: Chili, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, India, Italy, Jamaica Kuwait, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Portugal and Sri Lanka. For the last five years I have also been intensively involved in research on economic issues related to potential global warming: the projection of greenhouse gas emissions, the consequences of alternative policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, and the consequences for agriculture of global

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Prof. John Froines is Director of the Center for Occupational & Environmental Health at UCLA. Froines directs the Southern California Center for Airborne Particulate Matter, a multi-university center for studying air pollution caused by tiny particulate matter in the Los Angeles area. Froines has served as Director of Toxic Substances at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has been active at the state level in advising the state Air Resources Board on efforts to curb diesel vehicle emissions. PR: Dan Page [e-mail]

Prof. Pratim Biswas works in the Environmental Engineering and Science Division at the University of Cincinnati. His expertise includes dusts, aerosols, particles, air pollution, air quality, combustion systems, particulate control devices, ambient air quality, and atmospheric pollution. 513/556-3697

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