Association between county-level coal-fired power plant pollution and racial disparities in preterm births from 2000 to 2018

Coal has historically been a primary energy source in the United States (U.S.). The byproducts of coal combustion, such as fine particulate matter (PM _2.5 ), have increasingly been associated with adverse birth outcomes. The goal of this study was to leverage the current progressive transition away...

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Main Authors: Misbath Daouda, Lucas Henneman, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, Alison Gemmill, Corwin Zigler, Joan A Casey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe4f7