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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. Fossil fuel combustion has driven an increase in outdoor air pollution that in 2019 killed 29.15 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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And it produces almost all its electricity from hydro and solar. about 60 percent of its electricity from fossil fuels, primarily natural gas, which produces less carbon than coal does. Governments have offered subsidies or tax rebates to make EVs more appealing, a policy which the U.S. falls somewhere in the middle, deriving.