Global site-specific health impacts of fossil energy, steel mills, oil refineries and cement plants.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and particulate matter air pollution present major threats to human well-being by causing impacts on human health. Both are connected to key air pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO[Formula: see text]), primary fine particulate matter (PM[Formula: see text]), sulfur dioxide (SO[Formula: see text]), nitrogen oxides (NO[Formula: see text]) and ammonia (NH[Formula: see text]), which are primarily emitted from energy-intensive industrial sectors. We present the first study to consistently link a broad range of emission measurements for these substances with site-specific technical data, emission models, and atmospheric fate and effect models to quantify health impacts caused by nearly all global fossil power plants, steel mills, oil refineries and cement plants. The resulting h

SUBMITTER: Oberschelp C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10444750 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature