US power plant carbon standards and clean air and health co-benefits

Charles T. Driscoll (), Jonathan J. Buonocore, Jonathan I. Levy, Kathleen F. Lambert, Dallas Burtraw, Stephen B. Reid, Habibollah Fakhraei and Joel Schwartz
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Charles T. Driscoll: Syracuse University
Jonathan J. Buonocore: Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jonathan I. Levy: School of Public Health, Boston University
Kathleen F. Lambert: Harvard Forest, Harvard University
Stephen B. Reid: Sonoma Technology
Habibollah Fakhraei: Syracuse University
Joel Schwartz: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 6, 535-540

Abstract: Clean electricity generation is good for the climate and improves the quality of the air that we breathe. An analysis of US power plants shows that the magnitude of the resulting health benefits depends greatly on the carbon standards adopted.

Date: 2015
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