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🚀 Launch day! New study from @HarvardCCHANGE: burning gas, biomass, & wood now has MORE negative health impacts than coal in many states. 1st study to inventory health impacts of each fuel burned at stationary sources over last 10 years. To protect health, we must #ProtectOurAir

Air pollution costs us. It is no longer mostly from coal. In 2017, air pollution from buildings, power plants, industrial boilers, and other industries were responsible for an estimated 48-64,000 early deaths. Between 70 -77% are from burning gas, wood, biomass.😲

Air pollution from buildings, power plants, industrial boilers, and other industries were responsible for an estimated $615 billion in health impacts in 2017. That’s a lot of 🤑, consider that only 6 companies have ever been valued at over $600B.

Buildings are responsible for 1/3 the air pollution health impacts of all stationary sources. In other words, a big piece of the 🥧.

For the 1st time, this study breaks down the health of cost by fuel. Burning gas in buildings harms our health across the country. Here are the top 10 states for early deaths. All prime 🎯🎯for building #electrification

Got questions about the study? We’ve got a blog for that. @llouisprescott and I answer 7 burning 🔥🔥questions rmi.org/uncovering-the…

How can we use this research to spur action? Start here @RockyMtnInst’s interactive 🗺️ map. What is the health impact of buildings in your state? 👇 rmi.org/health-air-qua…

These figures are only from outdoor air pollution. We know burning gas in buildings indoors is also a health risk. 1 year ago (🗓️ to the day!) We released a report on the health effects from gas stoves @ABKraz @PSRenvironment @MothersOutFront @SierraClub rmi.org/insight/gas-st…

Peer-reviewed & published today in Environmental Research Letters. Huge 🥳 to authors J. Buonocore @Parichehr_S @DrewMichanowicz (@PhySciEng) @j_g_allen. Some of the best🧠 working on understanding & quantifying the health + climate impacts from oil & gas iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

There are a lot of people behind the scenes helping get this research out into the world 👏 @minaleenyc @kileykroh @llouisprescott @LizPurchia @phoebesweet @gabbilevy @ClimateNexus & many more!

I think all the twitter buzz 🐝 about this study finally got lead author @jjbuonocore on Twitter!