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Dont Breathe Easy

Experts link record rates of inner-city asthma to diminished air quality

By Brian H. Kehrl

The recent discovery of record numbers of asthma sufferers in several Chicago neighborhoods has underscored what experts are calling a national asthma “epidemic.” Yet as the epidemic rages, the Bush administration has moved to relax air pollution standards for power plants, which experts have linked to the growing rates of the disease. Asthma afflicts at least 25 million Americans and… return to article

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