A new commentary found that power plants' use of these devices saved up to 9,100 lives and up to $100 billion in health costs in 2023.
Boston University School of Public Health Oct 25 2024 A new commentary found that power plants' use of these devices saved up to 9,100 lives and up to $100 billion in health costs in 2023. These estimates reveal the substantial health benefits that could be at stake if the next presidential administration implements policies that aim to weaken the Clean Air Act and limit the regulatory authority of the EPA.
Both far-right policy platforms are gunning to dismantle environmental regulations, including by weakening the Clean Air Act, the bedrock 1970 federal law that gives the Environmental Protection Agency the authority to regulate emissions of major air pollutants at power plants.
Dr. Jonathan Buonocore, assistant professor of environmental health at BUSPH, and lead author of the commentary "Power plants are not the highest contributors to air pollution-related public health risk anymore in the US, thanks to federal policies that drastically reduced the emissions of SO2 and NOx from this sector over this time period," says Saravanan Arunachalam, Deputy Director, Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Health benefits from APCDs may be concentrated in specific locations, but these results show that strong environmental regulations benefit everyone," says Dr. Mary Willis, assistant professor of epidemiology at BUSPH.
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