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Please find the latest site on Metro Manila air pollution watch.
COPD caused by air pollution is now the 4th cause of mortality in the PHL. Despite the passage of CAC (Clean Air Act of 1999) air pollution continues to be unabated) . Worldwide, air pollutants killed 6 million worldwide, according to WHO. It used to be only 2 million in 2007. Majority of the victims are from China, with more than half of them caused by internal pollution (pollution from wood burning stoves in the house)
The more lethal air pollutants are the PM2.5, those pollutants we cant see - they are nano particles 30x smaller than human hair.
The PHL agencies, as led by its senior manager has followed the mandate of the law to monitor only the much larger particulates: PM 10
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