<description>&lt;p&gt;Picture a coal power plant: a building with tall smoke stacks with big plumes of gasses coming out of them. By now, we know that those gasses aren’t great for our health or the environment. But how bad are they?&amp;nbsp;That’s where Professor Cory Zigler comes in. He worked with a team of researchers to figure out where those gasses go and who they affect. Their approach was so specific, the team could point to a single power plant and say how many people it killed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Explore the Research&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4915" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Science: Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://cpieatgt.github.io/cpie/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Interactive Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Humans in Public Health

Brown University School of Public Health

Counting Coal’s Casualties

OCT 15, 202412 MIN
Humans in Public Health

Counting Coal’s Casualties

OCT 15, 202412 MIN

Description

Picture a coal power plant: a building with tall smoke stacks with big plumes of gasses coming out of them. By now, we know that those gasses aren’t great for our health or the environment. But how bad are they? That’s where Professor Cory Zigler comes in. He worked with a team of researchers to figure out where those gasses go and who they affect. Their approach was so specific, the team could point to a single power plant and say how many people it killed.

Explore the Research

Science: Mortality risk from United States coal electricity generation

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