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Shutting ‘super-polluters’ slashes greenhouse gases — and deaths

Early retirement for climate-damaging power plants would also cut emissions of air pollution that endanger human health.
A bird's eye view of a coal power plant

A coal-fired power plant in Shandong province, China. Such plants produce vast quantities of greenhouse gases and can emit high levels of hazardous air pollutants, as well. Credit: Andrea Verdelli/Getty

Retiring ‘super polluting’ power plants to aid the climate could have another benefit: saving millions of lives1.

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Nature 600, 192 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03581-5

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