What You Can't See Can Kill You

"The American Lung Association is one of many leading medical groups citing overwhelming evidence linking microscopic particles to fatal diseases. Tens of thousands of people die every year, from soot-based heart attacks, cancer, strokes" .............Profit versus Life, corporate scientific research funding direction versus Life's evolution and survival requirements, especially in the energy/trouble with physics arena


What You Can't See Can Kill You
SHIPPINGPORT, Pa., Dec. 21, 2006
(CBS) One day last July, a power plant smokestack rained black soot on the farms and homes of Shippingport, Pa., CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports. The power company, First Energy, said it was a maintenance accident — and, according to local residents, warned them not to eat anything dusted by the soot. The accident, which had the power company power-washing a town, was an unusually severe and visible example of what Americans breathe — in much smaller amounts — every day. And not just from power plants: Trucks, cars and even fires produce microscopic soot particles and chemicals that can damage your lungs. "Particle pollution, soot, kills people," says Janice Nolan with the American Lung Association The American Lung Association is one of many leading medical groups demanding that the Bush administration adopt stricter controls on microscopic soot. These groups cite overwhelming evidence linking microscopic particles to fatal diseases. Tens of thousands of people die "every year, from soot-based heart attacks, cancer, strokes," Nolan says. Despite that evidence, ....full text