Achieving health-oriented air pollution control requires integrating unequal toxicities of industrial particles.

ABSTRACT: Protecting human health from fine particulate matter (PM) pollution is the ambitious goal of clean air actions, but current control strategies  largely ignore the role of source-specific PM toxicity. Here, we proposed health-oriented control strategies by integrating the unequal toxic potencies of the most polluting industrial PMs. Iron and steel industry (ISI)-emitted PM_2.5 exhibit about one order of magnitude higher toxic potency than those of cement and power industries. Compared with the current mass-based control strategy (prioritizing implementation of ultralow emission standards in the power sector), the proposed health-oriented control strategy (priority control of the ISI sector) could generate 5.4 times higher reduction in population-weighted toxic potency-adjusted PM<

SUBMITTER: Wu D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576764 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature