{"id":911,"date":"2011-03-09T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baghouse.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2024-09-13T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:57:16","slug":"22-months-more-of-life-and-31-5-billion-euros-saved-by-reducing-air-pollution-in-europes-cites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/22-months-more-of-life-and-31-5-billion-euros-saved-by-reducing-air-pollution-in-europes-cites\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Months More of Life, and 31.5 Billion Euros Saved by Reducing Air Pollution in Europe’s Cites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reducing air pollution in major European cities could add 22 months to local life expectancy and save 31.5 billion euros ($43.4 billion) in health costs and work absenteeism, concludes a European Commission-funded study released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

One of the largest sources of persistent, air pollution is particulate matter emitted during the burning of fossil fuels such as coal for power generation.\u00a0 Current dust collection technology<\/a>, if fully implemented can remove nearly all particulate matter from power plant emissions<\/a>. As this study shows, the cost of implementing these, and other pollution control technologies pales in comparison with the public health benefits, and savings.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here: http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2011\/03\/air-pollution-life-expectancy\/1<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/p>\n

|<\/b> Dominick DalSanto is an Author & Environmental Technologies Expert, specializing in Dust Collection Systems. With nearly a decade of hands-on working experience in the industry, Dominick\u2019s knowledge of the industry goes beyond a mere classroom education. He is currently serving as Online Marketing Director & Content Manager at Baghouse.com. His articles have been published not only on Baghouse.com , but also on other industry related blogs and sites. In his spare time, Dominick writes about travel and life abroad for various travel sites and blogs.<\/p>\n

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Reducing air pollution in major European cities could add 22 months to local life expectancy and save 31.5 billion euros ($43.4 billion) in health costs and work absenteeism, concludes a European Commission-funded study released Wednesday. One of the largest sources of persistent, air pollution is particulate matter emitted during the burning of fossil fuels such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dust-collection-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baghouse.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}