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New Report: Even Moderate Air Pollution Can Increase Childhood Asthma ER Visits

U.S. Steel's Clairton plant.
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U.S. Steel's Clairton plant.

Even moderate amounts of air pollution increase the number of children going to emergency rooms for asthma in Allegheny County, a new study finds. For StateImpact Pennsylvania, The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports.

Read the full story at: https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/author/reidfrazier/#:~:text=Reid%20R.%20Frazier%20is%20an,aired%20on%20NPR%20and%20Marketplace.

(Original air-date: 6/3/22)

Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets.