Predicting Premature Mortality from New Power Plant Development in Virginia

Hermann, Richard; Divita, Frank; Lanier, Jack O.

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“…Costa, Chang, and Cole (2017) has reported the harmful impact of air pollution issues amongst the youngsters caused primarily due to the emissions resulted from FFUEL consumption in the electric generation process. Several researchers (e.g., Cifuentes, Borja-Aburto, Gouveia, Thurston, & Davis, 2001;Peel et al, 2007) reported these emissions coming out of factories as the primary cause of respiratory diseases among the youngsters as well as grown-ups with much higher mortality rates at the premature stage of such diseases (Hermann, Divita Jr, & Lanier, 2004). According to Ezzati, Lopez, Rodgers, Vander Hoorn, and Murray (2002), air pollution causes can be attributed to the FFUEL and particulate matter (PM) emissions in a number of metropolitans.…”

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Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development

Khan

Godil

Quddoos

et al. 2021

Sustainable Development

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This endeavor explores the nexus between health expenditure, consumption of renewable energy, economic growth, and the quality of the environment in 10 central European nations from 2005 to 2018 utilizing the techniques of fully generalized least square (FGLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. The outcomes reveal the significant association between health, economic, and environmental factors with green energy utilization. The utilization of fossil fuels negatively influences the quality of the environment and boosts the risk of several diseases associated with the undernourishment and respiratory system and thus increases the death ratio. Furthermore, the utilization of operations based on renewable energy usage exerts a substantial favorable influence upon residents of Central European (CE) nations and thus helps decrease health and pollution-related expenses. So, there needs to be a collaboration among all the stakeholders so that green growth in the service and industrial sectors can be achieved.

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Section: Renewable Energy and Environmentmentioning

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Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development

Khan

Godil

Quddoos

et al. 2021

Sustainable Development

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“…Hermann et al (2004) predicted that if 29 proposed fossil-fuel power plants in Virginia were operated for 6 years, PM 2.5 in 272 counties would increase by > 0.01 μg/m 3 and 104 additional premature deaths would occur. In a recent assessment, New York State was ranked third highest in incidence of adverse impacts attributable to power plant emissions (Schneider and Banks 2010).…”

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Association between Residential Proximity to Fuel-Fired Power Plants and Hospitalization Rate for Respiratory Diseases

Liu

Lessner

Carpenter

2012

Environ Health Perspect

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Background: Air pollution is known to cause respiratory disease. Unlike motor vehicle sources, fuel-fired power plants are stationary.Objective: Using hospitalization data, we examined whether living near a fuel-fired power plant increases the likelihood of hospitalization for respiratory disease.Methods: Rates of hospitalization for asthma, acute respiratory infection (ARI), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were estimated using hospitalization data for 1993–2008 from New York State in relation to data for residences near fuel-fired power plants. We also explored data for residential proximity to hazardous waste sites.Results: After adjusting for age, sex, race, median household income, and rural/urban residence, there were significant 11%, 15%, and 17% increases in estimated rates of hospitalization for asthma, ARI, and COPD, respectively, among individuals > 10 years of age living in a ZIP code containing a fuel-fired power plant compared with one that had no power plant. Living in a ZIP code with a fuel-fired power plant was not significantly associated with hospitalization for asthma or ARI among children < 10 years of age. Living in a ZIP code with a hazardous waste site was associated with hospitalization for all outcomes in both age groups, and joint effect estimates were approximately additive for living in a ZIP code that contained a fuel-fired power plant and a hazardous waste site.Conclusions: Our results are consistent with the hypothesis that exposure to air pollution from fuel-fired power plants and volatile compounds coming from hazardous waste sites increases the risk of hospitalization for respiratory diseases.

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“…Because coal as a source of energy is still actively used in North Carolina, health risks associated with multiple contaminants continue to induce a wide range of health problems [57]. Reported health risks include (but are not limited to) increased risk of all-cause mortality [53,[58][59][60], premature mortality [11,21,46,52,61], respiratory [16,51,62] and cardiovascular [10,51,63] diseases, as well as increased risk of respiratory cancer [39], low birth weight [40,64], higher risk of developmental and behavioral disorders in infants and children [24, 42, 43, A41], and infant mortality [65]. Detailed analysis of these health impacts in North Carolina, particularly in communities near coal-fired powered plants, requires site-specific evaluations.…”

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The Impact of Coal-Powered Electrical Plants and Coal Ash Impoundments on the Health of Residential Communities

Kravchenko¹,

Lyerly

2018

North Carolina Medical Journal

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W hile energy production using gas, nuclear, and solar power has recently increased in North Carolina, coal-fired electrical power plants remain the major source of net electricity generation: in 2017, 4,363 thousand megawatts (MWh) were generated from coal-fired sources; this is much greater than from nuclear power (the 2nd largest source at 3,811 thousand MWh) or gas-fired plants (the 3rd largest source, at 3,650 thousand MWh) [1]. Generation of electricity from the 14 coal-fired power plants in North Carolina results in the annual exhaust of 19.3 billion gallons of coal ash, with individual emissions ranging from 216 million gallons in Eden to over 4.1 billion gallons in Walnut Cove [2]. Coal-fired power plants can impact human health directly (eg, through immediate exposure to contaminated air and water) and indirectly (via exposure of coal and its by-products in the food chain) [3]. Coal combustion could also contribute to climate change that, in its turn, could lead to a higher frequency of floods, hurricanes, and droughts, a higher risk of development of allergic diseases, a higher prevalence of tick-and mosquito-borne diseases, as well as a higher risk of heat-related mortality [4, A1, A2]. At present, information about the health impact of coal-fired plants on human health, including the health of the residents of communities located in close proximity to coal power plants, remains sparse. We reviewed the literature to highlight the reports on potential health effects of pollution resulting from coal burning and coal ash storage. Objective, Method, and Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria The objective of this review was to summarize current knowledge on the health effects potentially associated with exposure to emissions from coal-burning power plants and to environmental contaminants from coal ash impoundments. The literature search, study selection, data extraction, and synthesis were performed between January 17, 2018, and June 19, 2018. We searched for English-language publications that were published between January 1, 1987, and December 31, 2017. To search for information, we used PubMed, Google Scholar, and also searched for additional studies from the reference lists of identified manuscripts that were related to the topic (see Figure 1). The review was performed based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines [A3]. The keywords used in the search were "coal," "coal ash," "coal power plant," "coal-burning power plant," "coal ash impoundment," "coal ash pond," and "fly ash." The detailed list of combinations of words for search is shown in Table 1.

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Predicting Premature Mortality from New Power Plant Development in Virginia

Cited by 11 publications

References 35 publications

Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development

Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development

Association between Residential Proximity to Fuel-Fired Power Plants and Hospitalization Rate for Respiratory Diseases

The Impact of Coal-Powered Electrical Plants and Coal Ash Impoundments on the Health of Residential Communities

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