Air pollution from the U.S. oil and gas industry is responsible for tens of thousands of premature deaths and other poor health outcomes, according to a study published Aug. 22 in the journal Science Advances.

Researchers modeled the impact of pollution from oil and gas and attributed it to 91,000 early deaths, 10,350 preterm births, 216,000 incidences of childhood asthma, and 1,610 cases of cancer, according to the peer-reviewed paper by researchers at University College London, the Stockholm Environment Institute in Seattle, George Washington University, and the University of Colorado.

The study found that racial minorities face the greatest disparities in exposure to air pollution and health problems, with Black and Asian populations receiving the greatest share of disparities from fine particle pollution, or soot, and ozone, a component of smog.