E.P.A. Emissions Plan Will Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — New carbon emissions standards that were proposed last year for coal-fired power plants in the United States would substantially improve human health, according to a new study, and prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year.

The study, led by researchers at Syracuse and Harvard Universities, used modeling to predict the effect on human health of changes to national carbon standards for power plants. The researchers calculated three different scenarios using data from the Census Bureau and detailed maps of the more than 2,400 fossil-fuel-fired power plants across the country.

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