Regulating Power Plants Is a Health Issue

The recent Supreme Court decision in the case known as West Virginia v. EPA weakened the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. At the heart of this ruling is the capacity of the U.S. federal government to regulate the release of substances that can be harmful to American people.

For every 4,434 tons of carbon dioxide emitted, one additional death is predicted. Using U.S. Energy Information Agency data for carbon emissions from coal-generated electricity in the U.S., I have calculated that 200,000 lives will be lost for each year the U.S. continues to use coal instead of a non-carbon dioxide emitting alternative to generate electricity.

As we have done with the public health crises of tobacco and opioid misuse, clinicians should take a more prominent role in the public health crises that climate change portends and pollution creates right now. Clinicians have powerful voices, as well as the science and evidence to back up their claims. These voices can rise above the din of marketing, lobbying and shareholder profits to speak for the young, the sick and the poor, whose lives will be harmed by climate change first.

The fossil fuel industry has been aware of the connection between fossil fuel emissions and harm to global public health since the 1960s. In the 1990s, industry sought to delegitimize climate science and created the “Global Climate Science Team” with the intention of undermining climate-focused regulatory efforts. Notably, the messages disseminated by the “Global Climate Science Team” were in direct contradiction to actual global climate scientists’ at that time and today.

If the oil companies combined with the drug companies, there would be no science....it would be outlawed.

This is a matter that involves every human being in this world, still we can do something

How about the damage done by the mining of all the materials needed to switch to 'clean power'? What about the immediate effects of that to people and the earth? No you can't talk about that! That doesn't fit your narrow based narrative! Put your blinders on, speak to the script!

When he guys get involved in politics the you lose credibility

Doctors have little or nothing to do with public health beyond re-emphasising the blindingly obvious. They lack the skills. Public Health is a separate much more important matter .

This moronic load of wasted verbiage is further Evidence of the degradation and degeneration of the medical establishment pandering to leftist causes that have no basis in science or reality. Shame.

Why do they always show a nuclear plant with steam when they are talking about coal/ng plants? 🤦‍♀️

This is funny for two reasons. The author is an anesthesiologist. He is not qualified to give medical advice or speak on the complexity of power grids. How about we invite more experts who actually understand complex energy systems to speak about climate change?

So is not having enough power

The damage this publication has done to its reputation is irreparable. Activism filled with scientific argot is not journalism; it’s still activism.

Sure, they did great with COVID19 Only gifted salesperson will convince you to buy something you don’t like, need, and/or afford, not to mention that will kill you!!

You're kidding, right?

Ok

Also environmentalists. Climate change changes everything for every being.

this is absurd political dreck, not science

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