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Coal emissions reductions and mortality in China - EurekAlert
In 2012, China was the largest consumer of coal in the world. In 2013, the State Council of China issued the “China National Action Plan on Air Pollution Prevention and Control,” aiming to reduce emissions from coal combustion. The plan included renovations to small residential coal heating stoves as well as retrofits for coal-fired power plants, among other initiatives. Xiaoming Shi and colleagues used accountability analysis to assess whether the acute health effects of fine particulate matter changed from 2013 to 2018 in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area. The acute effects of PM2.5 were significantly decreased for total and circulatory mortality. A 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 concentrations was associated with an increase of 0.16% and 0.02% in mortality from 2013 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2018, respectively.
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