Girl could become first Brit to have “air pollution” listed as cause of death

A report put together for Kissi-Debrah by Stephen Holgate, the former chair of the U.K. government’s advisory committee on air pollution and a professor at Britain’s University of Southampton, found that Ella’s asthma attacks coincided with years of air pollution levels near her home that were above the legal limit. “There is a real prospect that without unlawful levels of air pollution Ella would not have died,” the report was cited as saying in a memorandum provided by Kissi-Debrah’s legal team. If a new cause of death is linked to air pollution, Ella’s lawyers argue the British government could have failed to comply with its duties under the European Convention of Human Rights.

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