A study by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) revealed that microscopic air pollution is lowering life expectancy by nearly ten years in India. People living in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, home to more than 300 million people, could see their life expectancy drop by eight years. The same report concluded that air pollution is shortening lives by more than two years around the world. Working unseen inside the human body, particulate #pollution has a more devastating impact on life expectancy than communicable diseases like tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, behavioral…