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1. Health benefits and control costs of tightening particulate matter emissions standards for coal power plants - The case of Northeast Brazil

Author:
Saphores, Jean-Daniel M.,   et al.   ; Howard, Daniel B.; Thé, Jesse; Soria, Rafael; Fann, Neal; Schaeffer, Roberto;     Show all 6 Authors
Source:
Environment international 2019 v.124 pp. 420-430
ISSN:
0160-4120
Subject:
United States Environmental Protection Agency; World Health Organization; coal; developing countries; economic valuation; electricity; guidelines; hospitals; human health; inventories; models; particulate emissions; particulates; power plants; Brazil
Abstract:
... Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) caused an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide in 2015. However, PM emission standards for power plants vary widely. To explore if the current levels of these standards are sufficiently stringent in a simple cost-benefit framework, we compared the health benefits (avoided monetized health costs) with the control costs of tightening PM emission standard ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.029