Set of Climate-Related Events Result in Billions in Health Costs and Lost Lives
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–November 8, 2011. Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars and over 760,000 interactions with the health care system, are among the staggering figures resulting from a key set of climate-change-related events in the United States during the last decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in November 2011 edition of the journal Health Affairs and co-authored by NRDC scientists.
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