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Hazardous Air Pollutants

"air pollutants that may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death. They include asbestos, beryllium, mercury, benzene, coke oven emissions, radionuclides and vinyl chloride."

Source: United Nations, Glossary of Environment Statistics

   
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