With an annual health cost of $77 billion, a new study quantifies the dangers of oil and gas to Americans

CTOnews.com, May 9 (Xinhua) according to the latest research released by the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), the annual health cost of oil and gas in the United States is $77 billion (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 532.84 billion yuan), which is three times the cost of methane emissions on climate.

The researchers found that pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) caused 7500 excess deaths in the United States in 2016, an increase of 410,000 asthma attacks and 2200 new cases of asthma in children, as well as respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalization and poor pregnancy.

Picture source: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain among the pollutants, nitrogen oxides have the greatest impact on human health, followed by ozone, accounting for 35%, accounting for 35% and PM2.5 accounting for 28%. According to the report, health effects can be effectively reduced by curbing nitrogen oxides.

CTOnews.com attaches a link to the paper here, which interested users can click to read.