FACT SHEET: Particulate Matter in Indoor/Outdoor Air Does NOT Cause Death
This is the ultimate fact sheet for debunking what has become the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most potent regulatory weapon — the claim that fine particulate matter (soot and dust called PM2.5) in outdoor air kills people. This sheet will be updated regularly as needed. This will be Version 1 (September 22, 2016). Please let me know if you have comments/suggestions.
The Claim. Since 1996, EPA has claimed that PM2.5 causes death.
The EPA’s position is that:
ANY inhalation of PM2.5 — even one molecule — can cause death;
Death from PM2.5 may occur within hours of inhalation (i.e., on a short-term basis or, literally, “sudden death”) and that;
Death from PM2.5 may occur after decades of inhalation (i.e., on a long-term basis).
https://junkscience.com/2016/09/fact-sheet-particulate-matter-in-outdoor-air-does-not-cause-death/
