Benefits of Regulating Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal and Oil-Fired Utilities in the United States

Benefits of Regulating Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal and Oil-Fired Utilities in the United States.

Fired Utilities in the United States Elsie M. Sunderland,*,†,‡ Charles T. Driscoll, Jr.,* James K. Hammitt,‡ Philippe Grandjean,‡ John S. Evans,‡ Joel D. Blum, Celia Y. Chen, David C. Evers, Daniel A. Jaffe, Robert P. Mason, Shaun Goho, and Wendy Jacobs †Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States ‡Harvard...

EPA’s Responses to Public Comments on EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units

Ranking Cancer Risks of Organic Hazardous Air Pollutants in the United States

BACKGROUND In this study we compared cancer risks from organic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) based on total personal exposure summed across different microenvironments and exposure pathways. METHODS We developed distributions of personal exposure concentrations using field monitoring and modeling data for inhalation and, where relevant, ingestion pathways. We calculated risks for a nonoccup...

Hazardous Emissions from Philippine Coal-fired Power Plants

Hazardous air pollutants and asthma.

Asthma has a high prevalence in the United States, and persons with asthma may be at added risk from the adverse effects of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Complex mixtures (fine particulate matter and tobacco smoke) have been associated with respiratory symptoms and hospital admissions for asthma. The toxic ingredients of these mixtures are HAPs, but whether ambient HAP exposures can induce a...