Posted on 05/05/2015 10:35:12 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New carbon emissions standards that were proposed last year for coal-fired power plants in the United States would substantially improve human health and prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year, according to a new study.
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.
Researchers calculated that the changes in the E.P.A. rule could prevent 3,500 premature deaths a year and more than 1,000 heart attacks and hospitalizations from air-pollution-related illness.
Charles T. Driscoll, a professor of environmental systems engineering at Syracuse who was the lead author of the paper, said research began about a year before the E.P.A. proposed the carbon reduction plan. It was a coincidence that one of the researchers’ models so closely resembled the federal proposal.
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It's as necessary to life on this planet as oxygen, liquid water and heat.
People who read the NY Times everyday are cutting off the flow of knowledge to their brain.
Tailpipe CO2 emissions are being reduced by raising CAFE standards
SCOTUS ruled that CO2 is a pollutant in 2007, in the case of Massachusetts v EPA. And told EPA to regulate it with the Clean Air Act.
The SCOTUS can rule than an elephant is a fig newton, but that don’t make it so.
I was talking about highway deaths - CO2 makes the trees grow (biology 101). More is better.
For just tax-dollars a day, you too can help feed a bureaucrat…
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