Lloyd Alter (@lloydalter): "Ultrafine particles penetrate deep into our bloodstream and contribute to heart and lung diseases, and yet they are virtually unregulated, and we are counting them wrong, by weight instead of numbers. After reading @Bruce Lanphear about lead mrom car exhaust was so deadly, I com…"

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Ultrafine particles penetrate deep into our bloodstream and contribute to heart and lung diseases, and yet they are virtually unregulated, and we are counting them wrong, by weight instead of numbers. After reading Bruce Lanphear about lead mrom car exhaust was so deadly, I compare the UFP situation:

We don’t think much about particulate pollution and completely ignore ultrafine particles because it would be too inconvenient to have to stop burning stuff, particularly gasoline. We don’t test for them or regulate them because we don’t want to know. We go to the doctor with our heart problems and COPD and don’t think about environmental exposures. But I suspect UFPs are like Bruce Lanphear’s lead- killing us, while hidden in plain sight.

Lloyd Alter

May 8

12:05 PM

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