'Sacrificial Zones' in US Put Thousands at Risk Due to Worsening Air Pollution

Inhabitants in sacrifice zones perish from malignancy or other ailments at a higher rate and at a younger age, than persons living only a few miles inland. Approximately 256,000 Citizens live in places where cancer occurrences due by polluted air surpass the Nature Conservation Ministry's existing top level of accepted level. These locations have been dubbed sacrifice zones by environmentalists.