Widespread adoption of electric vehicles could prevent approximately 108,400 premature deaths and 42,100 new childhood asthma cases in the United States by mid-century.
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Health risks from wildfire smoke are especially troubling for immunocompromised people and people with asthma.
Wired
In May, the NAACP filed a request for a preliminary injunction, stating that the climbing rates of environmental pollution increases risks of asthma attacks and heart disease in communities that already face significant pollution thanks to regulatory capture and systemic racism.
Techdirt
Based on prior analysis by NYSERDA and DEC, cap-and-invest would have delivered an estimated $16.9 billion in public health benefits between 2025 and 2029 and avoided over 1,500 premature deaths and thousands of emergency room visits from asthma.
Climate 411
Obesity in adults increases the risks of, among other conditions, high blood pressure; Type 2 diabetes; breathing problems, such as asthma and sleep apnea; joint problems, such as osteoarthritis; gallstones and gallbladder disease; and mental illness, such as clinical depression and anxiety.
Wright Constable & Skeen
Living near fracking increased the risk of lymphoma, asthma and poorer birth outcomes.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Victoria's frontline public health system $35.5m in 2025-26 ($38.3m / 4 years) for continued operation of Victoria's Local Public Health Units, water regulation functions to protect Victoria's drinking water, and the Epidemic Thunderstorm Asthma Program and extreme weather alert system.
A deep dive on the 2025 Victorian Budget | VCOSS
Efficiency and electrification upgrades will prevent 39,000 asthma attacks and 2,800 premature deaths in Michigan.
Planet Detroit
EOS - commonly recognized as a biomarker for Type 2 eosinophilic asthma - emerged as a significant contributor to COPD pathogenesis, suggesting a potential overlap in the inflammatory pathways of asthma and COPD.
PubMed Central (PMC)
The EPA plans to stop calculating the monetary value of health benefits - such as avoiding premature deaths, heart attacks and asthma attacks - when setting limits for fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone.
World Socialist Web Site
WHO's global air quality guidelines define air quality levels needed to safeguard health from risks such as respiratory infections, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.
World Health Organization: WHO
Air pollution is the world's leading environmental health risk, driving respiratory and cardiovascular disease, asthma, and premature births, with lower-income communities most affected.
Positive News
In eastern Australia, population exposure to bushfire PM2.5 during the Black Summer was estimated to be responsible for 417 excess deaths, 1124 cardiovascular and 2027 respiratory hospital admissions, and 1305 asthma-related emergency department presentations.
PubMed Central (PMC)
Allergies are the most common chronic disease in Europe, with up to 1 in 5 allergy patients living with a severe debilitating form of their condition and the constant fear of a possible asthma attack, anaphylactic shock or even death as a result of an allergic reaction.
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50% of all babies born in Southern Ontario will suffer asthma in the first five years of their life.
Timothy S. Johnston
More specifically, ALA estimates that a full transition to zero-emission MHDVs by 2050 could avoid more than 8,500 lost workdays, 1.75 million asthma attacks, and 66,800 premature deaths. / USA
Economic Policy Institute
Last updated: 02 August 2026
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