Remember The Hobbit, when Bard the Bowman took down the dragon Smaug? The EPA is proposing a new rule to cut real-life smog. The “smog rule” would apply to heavy-duty vehicles and could cut average emissions by 90% within four years. It could avert up to 2,000 premature deaths and 18,000 cases of childhood asthma each year.
Reuters: 2021 saw jump in greenhouse-gas emissions, says report, January 10, 2022.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Electric Vehicles - The Promise for Health and Equity, September 14, 2021.
TED: End fossil fuels to protect human health | Carolyn Orr, March 1, 2022.
About Alexandra Bowman
Alexandra Bowman is World War Zero's cartoonist in residence. She is a political cartoonist and satirist, creating work with The Lincoln Project and environmental newsletter Our Daily Planet. Bowman's illustrations have been published by BBC News, BBC Books, Puffin Books, the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, the National Wildlife Federation, and Penguin Random House UK. As a rising senior at Georgetown University, she is double majoring in English and Art and will be graduating early with a Master's in English in May 2023. Bowman also founded The Hilltop Show, a political comedy webseries run by over 50 undergraduate and graduate student members from around the world, and serves as its host and Lead Satirical Writer.
