Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US

Yang Ou; J. Jason West; Steven J. Smith; Christopher G. Nolte; Daniel H. Loughlin

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14783-2

Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US

Yang Ou,
J. Jason West,
Steven J. Smith,
Christopher G. Nolte,
Daniel H. Loughlin

Affiliations

Yang Ou: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. Jason West: Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven J. Smith: Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Christopher G. Nolte: Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Daniel H. Loughlin: Center for Environmental Measurement and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14783-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Decoupling emission reduction target determination, air pollution modelling, and health benefit estimation complicates control strategy design. Here an integrated approach identifies strategies to reduce health damages of air pollution, showing that benefits can be achieved cost-effectively by electrifying sources with high primary PM2.5 emission intensities.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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