I remember when I lived in College Park and would drive up 295 to visit the parental units. Some days you could see the dome of brown air hovering over Bmore.
Baltimore: Number 1 in air pollution deaths | Citypaper Blogs
A troubling report in the journal Atmospheric Environment claims that, not only do 200,000 Americans die needlessly in the US each year from the effects of breathing air pollution, but that Baltimore City leads the nation in deaths per 100,000 residents.
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Math time: 130 people times 6.3 (Baltimore’s population divided by 100,000) would be 819 Baltimoreans cut down each year. Put another way, that’s four times the number killed annually by homicide.