US air quality dropped during Trump administration after years of improvement

1. 2019-10-24 at 2:19 PM UTC

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   Vitamin G African Astronaut
   I guess this is what happens when you pull back EPA regulations and funding
   
   https://www.nber.org/papers/w26381
   
   

   After declining by 24.2% from 2009 to 2016, annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the United States in counties with monitors increased by 5.5% between 2016 and 2018. Increases occurred in multiple census regions and in counties that were in and out of attainment with National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We explore channels through which the increase may have occurred including increases in economic activity, increases in wildfires, and decreases in Clean Air Act enforcement actions. The health implications of this increase in PM2.5 between 2016 and 2018 are significant. The increase was associated with 9,700 additional premature deaths in 2018. At conventional valuations, these deaths represent damages of $89 billion.

2. 2019-10-24 at 2:36 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
   fake news
3. 2019-10-24 at 2:42 PM UTC

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   Vitamin G African Astronaut

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood fake news

   
   This is usually the go to response of Republicans when they are met with the truth.
4. 2019-10-24 at 2:48 PM UTC

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   Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

   Originally posted by Vitamin G I guess this is what happens when you pull back EPA regulations and funding
   
   https://www.nber.org/papers/w26381

   
   What do you know about the purpose and history of NBER and it's founders?
5. 2019-10-24 at 3:12 PM UTC

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   Vitamin G African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Speedy Parker What do you know about the purpose and history of NBER and it's founders?

   
   I don't engage in discussion with retards
6. 2019-10-24 at 3:23 PM UTC

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   Number13 African Astronaut [dispute my snotty-nosed seagull]
   Americans don't need much air to think anyway.
7. 2019-10-24 at 3:45 PM UTC

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   Vitamin G African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Number13 Americans don't need much air to think anyway.

   
   >When you buy into Russian propaganda
8. 2019-10-24 at 4:17 PM UTC

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   Number13 African Astronaut [dispute my snotty-nosed seagull]

   Originally posted by Vitamin G >When you buy into Russian propaganda

   
   They've lived long enough smelling their own farts so they can live with this
9. 2019-10-24 at 4:59 PM UTC

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   Archer513 African Astronaut
   I find the air to be quite delicious
   
   Meanwhile...China keeps building dirty coal plants and already burns more coal than every other country combined.
10. 2019-10-24 at 5:01 PM UTC

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    Kuntzschutz African Astronaut
    It's just a result of all the beaners that flooded into the US because they were dumb enough to think Trump was really going to build a wall to keep them out.
    
    Beaner gas
11. 2019-10-24 at 5:04 PM UTC

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    Vitamin G African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Archer513 I find the air to be quite delicious
    
    Meanwhile…China keeps building dirty coal plants and already burns more coal than every other country combined.

    
    Plain untrue. China banned thr building of new plants a few years ago.
12. 2019-10-24 at 5:16 PM UTC

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    Kuntzschutz African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Vitamin G Plain unbean. China beaned thr beaning of new bean plants a few beans ago.

    
    More nonsense from the low IQ toad resembling flatulent border hopper.
    
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/716347646/why-is-china-placing-a-global-bet-on-coal
    
    

    China Building Hundreds Of Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad
    China struggling to kick its coal habit despite Beijing's big climate pledges

    
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/28/asia/china-coal-plant-inner-mongolia-intl-hnk/index.html
    
    
    Stop trying to defend the chinese, they're never going to consider you to be human like they are, faggot
13. 2019-10-24 at 5:49 PM UTC

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    vindicktive vinny Black Hole

    Originally posted by Archer513 I find the air to be quite delicious
    
    Meanwhile…China keeps building dirty coal plants and already burns more coal than every other country combined.

    
    what china outputs today are a fraction of what the US outputed in the 50s all the way thru to the 90s.
    
    go watch michael moores old documentaries.
14. 2019-10-24 at 11:19 PM UTC

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    Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

    Originally posted by Vitamin G I don't engage in discussion with retards

    
    In other words nothing. Thanks for searching for a paid for opinion that agrees with yours and sharing it. No need to ever put yourself out that way again, ever...
15. 2019-10-24 at 11:41 PM UTC

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    Vitamin G African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Speedy Parker In other words nothing. Thanks for searching for a paid for opinion that agrees with yours and sharing it. No need to ever put yourself out that way again, ever…

    
    It's science, not an opinion. The raw data doesn't lie.
16. 2019-10-24 at 11:58 PM UTC

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    Archer513 African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Vitamin G Plain untrue. China banned thr building of new plants a few years ago.

    
    
    
    

    Originally posted by Vitamin G It's science, not an opinion. The raw data doesn't lie.

    
    https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/716347646/why-is-china-placing-a-global-bet-on-coal
17. 2019-10-25 at 12:04 AM UTC

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    Vitamin G African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Archer513 https://www.npr.org/2019/04/29/716347646/why-is-china-placing-a-global-bet-on-coal

    
    Says right there, not in China.
18. 2019-10-26 at 2:42 AM UTC

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    Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

    Originally posted by Vitamin G It's science, not an opinion. The raw data doesn't lie.

    
    It's not science it's an article with largely editorial content.
19. 2019-10-26 at 2:44 AM UTC

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    Vitamin G African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Speedy Parker It's not science it's an article with largely editorial content.

    
    Uh no, that's called the abstract.
20. 2019-10-26 at 2:45 AM UTC

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    Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

    Originally posted by Vitamin G Uh no, that's called the abstract.

    
    It wasn't that kind of article moron.