E.P.A. Carbon Emissions Plan Could Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 15The Environmental Protection Agency's power plant emissions rules would save about 3,500 lives a year and have many other positive health effects, according to researchers at Syracuse and Harvard universities. The emissions reductions mandated by the rules would lead to 1,000 fewer heart attacks and other hospitalizations from air-pollution-related illness annually, the study found.