Observational studyEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2019
Accountability Assessment of Health Improvements in the United States Associated with Reduced Coal Emissions Between 2005 and 2012.
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- The local impacts of coal and oil power plant retirements on air pollution and cardiorespiratory health in California: An application of generalized synthetic control method.Environmental research · 2023Pooled it
- Bayesian Causal Methods for Environmental Accountability Studies with Heterogeneous Effects.Current environmental health reports · 2026Review
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- Bipartite interference and air pollution transport: estimating health effects of power plant interventions.Biostatistics (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Reductions in Respiratory Hospital Visits after a Coal Coking Plant Closure: A Natural Experiment.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Children's Lung Function Was Lower in 2017-2018 than in 1995-1996: The Roles of Air Quality Change and Individual-Level Risk Factors.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- CAUSAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF POWER PLANT EMISSION CONTROLS UNDER MODELED AND UNCERTAIN PHYSICAL PROCESS INTERFERENCE.The annals of applied statistics · 2024Article
- Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Sulfur dioxide reduction at coal-fired power plants in North Carolina and associations with preterm birth among surrounding residents.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- Inequitable Exposures to U.S. Coal Power Plant-RelatedEnvironmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Invited Commentary: The Promise and Pitfalls of Causal Inference With Multivariate Environmental Exposures.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Association between county-level coal-fired power plant pollution and racial disparities in preterm births from 2000 to 2018.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2021Article
- Approaches to Studying Determinants of Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Stroke and Its Sequelae.Stroke · 2020Review
- Evaluation of the health impacts of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments using causal inference and machine learning.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2020Article
- Improved asthma outcomes observed in the vicinity of coal power plant retirement, retrofit, and conversion to natural gas.Nature energy · 2020Article
- Impact of Reductions in Emissions from Major Source Sectors on Fine Particulate Matter-Related Cardiovascular Mortality.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- Air pollution accountability of energy transitions: the relative importance of point source emissions and wind fields in exposure changes.Environmental research letters : ERL [Web site] · 2019Article
- Ultrafine Particles from Residential Biomass Combustion: A Review on Experimental Data and Toxicological Response.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundNational, state, and local policies contributed to a 65% reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2012 in the United States, providing an opportunity to directly quantify public health benefits attributable to these reductions under an air pollution accountability framework.
methodsWe estimate ZIP code-level changes in two different-but related-exposure metrics: total PM2.5 concentrations and exposure to coal-fired power plant emissions. We associate changes in 10 health outcome rates among approximately 30 million US Medicare beneficiaries with exposure changes between 2005 and 2012 using two difference-in-difference regression approaches designed to mitigate observed and unobserved confounding.
resultsRates per 10,000 person-years of six cardiac and respiratory health outcomes-all cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, cardiovascular stroke, heart failure, ischemic heart disease, and respiratory tract infections-decreased by between 7.89 and 1.95 per (Equation is included in full-text article.)decrease in PM2.5, with comparable decreases in coal exposure leading to slightly larger rate decreases. Results for acute myocardial infarction, heart rhythm disorders, and peripheral vascular disease were near zero and/or mixed between the various exposure metrics and analyses. A secondary analysis found that nonlinearities in relationships between changing health outcome rates and coal exposure may explain differences in their associations.
conclusionsThe direct analyses of emissions reductions estimate substantial health benefits via coal power plant emission and PM2.5 concentration reductions. Differing responses associated with changes in the two exposure metrics underscore the importance of isolating source-specific impacts from those due to total PM2.5 exposure.
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