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Tunnel exhaust stacks: don’t dare harm our kids … but expose workers

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageThe evidence that living near exhaust stacks from busy tunnels harms your lungs is far from settled.from www.shutterstock.com

This week news broke about the location of several exhaust ventilation stacks that will disperse vehicle pollution along some of the 14 kilometres of tunnels planned across Sydney.

Four of the six 20-35 metre tall exhaust...

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