Out of Breath, October 1999
Ozone air pollution sends 53,000 people to the hospital, 159,000 to the emergency room, and triggers 6,200,000 asthma attacks in the Eastern half of the United States each summer, according to a recent risk assessment.
Abt Associates prepared the risk analysis for the Clean Air Task Force to quantify the adverse health effects associated with ozone in the eastern U.S.
U.S. PIRG [www.pirg.org] offers the report online.
