University of Geneva Reports Findings in Science (Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation): Science

2023 DEC 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Science is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from Geneva, Switzerland, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Policy-makers seeking to limit the impact of coal electricity-generating units (EGUs, also known as power plants) on air quality and climate justify regulations by quantifying the health burden attributable to exposure from these sources. We defined ‘coal PM’ as fine particulate matter associated with coal EGU sulfur dioxide emissions and estimated annual exposure to coal PM from 480 EGUs in the US.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Geneva, “We estimated the number of deaths attributable to coal PM from 1999 to 2020 using individual-level Medicare death records representing 650 million person-years. Exposure to coal PM was associated with 2.1 times greater mortality risk than exposure to PM from all sources. A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM, representing 25% of all PM-related Medicare deaths before 2009 and 7% after 2012.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Here, we quantify and visualize the contribution of individual EGUs to mortality.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation. Science, 2023;382(6673):941-946. Science can be contacted at: Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 1200 New York Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA. (Springer - www.springer.com; Science - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0926-7220/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Christine Choirat, Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Additional authors for this research include Lucas Henneman, Irene Dedoussi, Francesca Dominici, Jessica Roberts and Corwin Zigler.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf4915. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal Science is: Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 1200 New York Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA.

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