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Climate Change

Do Republicans favor Coal Plants over Americans’ Health?

contributors 05/11/2015

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Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | –

‘”The Obama administration’s proposed curbs on coal-burning power plants could prevent thousands of deaths each year from heart attack and respiratory disease, scientists said Monday in the first peer-reviewed study to examine the measure’s health impacts.

Many parts of the country could see immediate improvements in air quality as a side-effect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed “Clean Power Plan” regulations, which are primarily intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the researchers said in a study published in Nature Climate Change.

Depending on implementation, the proposals could prevent about 3,500 premature deaths a year, mostly from respiratory disease, said the study’s authors, scientists from Harvard and Syracuse universities and four other institutions.”*’

The Young Turks: “Proof Republicans Favor Coal Plants Over Human Lives”

Filed Under: Climate Change, Coal, Environmentalism, Health, Plutocracy, Republican Party

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