ST. PAUL – A new report suggests air pollution is at least partly responsible for a sizeable portion of deaths in Minnesota. It takes the study beyond just the twin cities metro area into out state areas to measure the impacts of air pollution on health.
According to the study, as many as five percent of hospital visits and as many ten percent of deaths in the state could be linked in some part to air pollution.
That works out to, roughly 2,000 to 4,000 premature deaths, 500 additional hospital stays and 800 emergency department visits attributable to air pollution across the state.
