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Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation

Published:2023-11-24 Issue:6673 Volume:382 Page:941-946
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Henneman Lucas¹²^ORCID,Choirat Christine³^ORCID,Dedoussi Irene⁴^ORCID,Dominici Francesca²^ORCID,Roberts Jessica⁵^ORCID,Zigler Corwin²⁶

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering, Fairfax, VA, USA.

2. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

3. Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

4. Section Aircraft Noise and Climate Effects, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

5. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

6. Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA.

Abstract

Policy-makers seeking to limit the impact of coal electricity-generating units (EGUs, also known as power plants) on air quality and climate justify regulations by quantifying the health burden attributable to exposure from these sources. We defined “coal PM 2.5 ” as fine particulate matter associated with coal EGU sulfur dioxide emissions and estimated annual exposure to coal PM 2.5 from 480 EGUs in the US. We estimated the number of deaths attributable to coal PM 2.5 from 1999 to 2020 using individual-level Medicare death records representing 650 million person-years. Exposure to coal PM 2.5 was associated with 2.1 times greater mortality risk than exposure to PM 2.5 from all sources. A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM 2.5 , representing 25% of all PM 2.5 -related Medicare deaths before 2009 and 7% after 2012. Here, we quantify and visualize the contribution of individual EGUs to mortality.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.adf4915

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