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Setting strong standards for climate-changing carbon emissions from power plants would provide an added bonus, reductions in other air pollutants that can make people sick; damage forests, crops, and lakes; and harm fish and wildlife. This, according to a first-of-its-kind study by scientists at Syracuse University and Harvard who mapped the potential environmental and human health benefits of power plant carbon standards.
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Original Study: “Carbon Co-Benefits Research,”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slated to release the nation’s first-ever carbon pollution standards for existing power plants on June 2, 2014. Syracuse and Harvard Universities teamed up to analyze how carbon pollution standards for existing power plants will decrease the emission of several co-pollutants, improve local air quality, decrease atmospheric deposition, and benefit people and ecosystems across the U.S.
