Coal explained - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
2024年4月17日 · In 2022, CO 2 emissions from burning coal for energy accounted for about 19% of total U.S. energy-related CO 2 emissions and for about 55% of total CO 2 emissions from the electric power sector. U.S. air pollution laws now require most fly ash emissions to be captured by pollution-control devices.
Deaths associated with pollution from coal power plants
2023年12月12日 · A careful analysis found that air pollution from coal power plants is associated with greater mortality than previously thought. It also found that such deaths have decreased due to air pollution regulations and coal power plant retirements.
Particulate pollution from coal may be twice as deadly as that …
2023年11月23日 · Researchers found that between 1999 and 2020, 460,000 deaths were attributable to fine particulate air pollutants emitted by coal-fired power plants (coal PM2.5); 10 of these plants each contributed at least 5,000 deaths.
Coal Power Impacts - Union of Concerned Scientists
2017年11月15日 · Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is linked with asthma, cancer, heart and lung ailments, neurological problems, acid rain, global warming, and other severe environmental and public health impacts. When coal is burned it releases a number of airborne toxins and pollutants.
Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths …
2023年11月23日 · The longest-running study of its kind reviewed death records in the path of pollution from coal-fired power plants. The numbers are staggering − but also falling fast as US coal plants close.
Coal and Air Pollution - Union of Concerned Scientists
2008年7月28日 · Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is linked with asthma, cancer, heart and lung ailments, neurological problems, acid rain, global warming, and other severe environmental and public health impacts.
Health and environmental impact of the coal industry - Wikipedia
In 2011 U.S. power plants emitted half of the nation's mercury air pollutants. [41] In February 2012, EPA issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) regulation, which requires all coal-fired plants to substantially reduce mercury emissions. [42] [43]
Coal Power Kills a ‘Staggering’ Number of Americans
2023年11月28日 · CLIMATEWIRE | Particulate pollution from coal plants is likely far more deadly than EPA regulations recognize, according to a study published in Science over the Thanksgiving holiday.
E.P.A. Severely Limits Pollution From Coal-Burning Power Plants
2024年4月25日 · New regulations could spell the end for plants that burn coal, the fossil fuel that powered the country for more than a century. Under the plan, existing coal plants operating through or beyond...
Particulate pollution from coal associated with double the risk of ...
2023年11月23日 · Exposure to fine particulate air pollutants from coal-fired power plants is associated with a risk of mortality more than double that of exposure to PM2.5 from other sources, according to a new study led by George Mason, UT Austin, and Harvard Chan School.