With all the work being done to reduce the amount of petroleum products used on the nation’s roadways, there’s still an awful lot of gas being burned on every street, every day. The EPA is funding a $1.4 million joint study with the University of Michigan on the health effects of air pollution on children who live near busy roads. Learning more about how asthma and respiratory viral infections are affected by the pollution will be highlighted in the three-year study that started in September 2008.
Officially called the, “Childhood Health Effects from Roadway and Urban Pollutant Burden Study,” the results of the study will be used by local governments to better plan where things like roads and schools should be built. The potential impact is large, since the EPA says that more than 45 million people in the U.S. currently live within 300 feet of a four-lane road, airport, or railroad.
[Source: EPA]
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