{"id":52866,"date":"2025-08-01T16:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52866\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:06:07","slug":"the-invisible-climate-change-effect-that-is-most-likely-to-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/52866\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lethality of bad air is partly due to the range of illnesses associated with it. Bad air increases our risks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/health\/wellness-and-prevention\/air-quality-and-health#:~:text=Respiratory%20disease%20such%20as,in%20combination%20with%20hot%20weather.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, breast cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, and heart attack.<\/a> There is also significant evidence that air pollution takes a toll on <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10375903\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mental health<\/a>. Not only is it obviously depressing to be subjected to it, but the particulate appears to harm our brains in ways that impair our everyday functioning.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of things getting worse, the Trump administration is poised to kill many more of us by demolishing long-established air quality protections. On Tuesday, Lee Zeldin\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/trump-administration-moves-to-repeal-epa-rule-that-allows-climate-regulation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to repeal the Obama-era \u201cendangerment finding,\u201d<\/a> a declaration that because carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases (like methane) endanger public health and welfare, the government is justified in using the Clean Air Act to regulate them. The announcement comes just after Trump\u2019s move two weeks ago to grant blanket exceptions to the Clean Air Act <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/press\/2025\/trump-halts-clean-air-laws-for-most-of-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to 100 polluters in at least 30 U.S. states and territories<\/a>. Among those exempted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/regulatory-relief-for-certain-stationary-sources-to-promote-american-security-with-respect-to-sterile-medical-equipment\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">four<\/a> separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/07\/regulatory-relief-for-certain-stationary-sources-to-further-promote-american-energy\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proclamations<\/a> by the president were taconite mills, commercial sterilizers, chemical plants, coal-fired power plants, and metal processing sites, some of which produce the most carcinogenic chemicals known to man, including benzene, ethylene oxide, formaldehyde, and chloroprene. <\/p>\n<p>Bad air quality is not dramatic like a flood, a fire, or a heat wave. At its worst, it looks like how we might imagine dystopia: a brownish smog sitting on the horizon, a faint fuzziness to distant objects. Occasionally, when the fires are close or the smoke especially heavy, reddening skies will bring an eerie early darkness. If you\u2019re sensitive, you might feel slightly congested, short of breath, or easily tired. But most of the time, pollution doesn\u2019t look or sound like anything special. If you\u2019re lucky enough to live and work in air-conditioned spaces, you might not notice it at all. Many of the friends and relations of people killed by air pollution won\u2019t realize that the fossil fuel industry\u2014and insufficient government regulation\u2014is to blame. Air pollution is already an ongoing massacre, and Lee Zeldin\u2019s moves this month will kill many more people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lethality of bad air is partly due to the range of illnesses associated with it. 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