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Report: Left Behind
by EIP
This report documents how power plant emissions have increased in key states and at forty one speific plants, and it also reviews their health impacts.
Nov 1, 2002

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"Left Behind" documents how power plant emissions have increased in key states and at forty one plants, and reviews their health impacts. Power plants are responsible for two thirds of the sulfur dioxide and one quarter of the nitrogen oxide pollution in the United States. These power plant emissions form fine particles that are linked to heart disease, lung cancer, respiratory ailments and more than 20,000 premature deaths every year. While the 1990 Clean Air Act has helped reduce sulfur dioxide by about 1/3 nationwide, progress has been uneven.

Particulate Related Health Impacts of Emissions in 2001 from 41 Major US Power Plants

Emission Data by State

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