US oil and gas air pollution is causing unequal health impacts: Study
- Posted on August 22, 2025
- By The Hill
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US oil and gas air pollution is causing unequal health impacts: Study

Air pollutants from U.S. oil and gas operations are causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues each year — with racial and ethnic minority populations bearing the biggest burden, a new study has found. The outdoor contaminants, which include fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone, take the…