US Coal Plants Killed 460,000 People Between 1999 and 2020 Common Dreams
Research published Thursday in the journal Science estimates that pollution from coalfired power plants killed roughly 460,000 people in the United States between 1999 and 2020, making it more than twice as deadly as other kinds of fine particulate emissions.. After calculating annual exposure to fine particulates—known as PM —from 480 coal plants and examining Medicare death records ...