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Article: Study data from Environmental Protection Agency provide new insights into environmental health.
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- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- August 7, 2009
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According to recent research published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, "There is ample epidemiologic and toxicologic evidence that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution [aerodynamic diameter
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