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  • 2019-02-07 (xsd:date)
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  • specialist in air pollution (en)
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  • In an article posted the 27th of November 2018 the Belgian newspaper De Tijd claimed that the health damages by road traffic related air pollution costs the European Union around 62 billion euros a year. This claim turned out to be mostly true. From a study done by European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) it turns out that the health damages by road traffic related air pollution costs the European Union around 62 billion euros a year. These health damages include sicknesses that are directly linked to air pollution such as cardiac arrests and respiratory illnesses." Table from the EPHA study on the costs of air pollution. The 13-billion-euro margin is due to the use of different calculation methods. When using TRUE-based factors (en)
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