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Health benefits and control costs of tightening particulate matter emissions standards for coal power plants - The case of Northeast Brazil

Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) caused an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide in 2015. However, PM emission standards for power plants vary widely. To explore if the current levels of these standards are sufficiently stringent in a simple cost-benefit framework, we compared the health...

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Autores principales: Howard, Daniel B., Thé, Jesse, Soria, Rafael, Fann, Neal, Schaeffer, Roberto, Saphores, Jean-Daniel M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7227787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30682597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.01.029

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