{"id":306099,"date":"2019-12-18T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=306099"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T05:04:05","slug":"how-coal-power-increases-infant-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-coal-power-increases-infant-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"How coal power increases infant mortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 70% of India\u2019s power generation comes from coal, a dependence that comes with serious health consequences, according to research. In a study, Geoffrey Barrows of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique and others find that the expansion of coal-based power generation can have adverse effects on infant mortality through increased pollution levels in the form of nitrogen dioxide (NO2).<\/p>\n<p>Coal power plants are responsible for around 60% of NO2 emissions in the country, according to their estimates. The researchers use gridded pollution data between 1996-2015 and district-level infant mortality rates to show that the expansion of coal power generation in India has increased infant mortality significantly. Specifically, they show that 1 gigawatt (GW) rise in coal power generation capacity increases NO2 levels by 7.6% and, consequently, infant mortality by 14%. In contrast, a similar increase in power capacity in the US results in only a 4.8% increase in infant mortality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 70% of India\u2019s power generation comes from coal, a dependence that comes with serious health consequences, according to research. In a study, Geoffrey Barrows of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique and others find that the expansion of coal-based power generation can have adverse effects on infant mortality through increased pollution levels in the form of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Coal power plants are responsible for around 60% of NO2 emissions in the country, according to their estimates. The researchers use gridded pollution data between 1996-2015 and district-level infant mortality rates to show that the expansion of coal power generation in India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}