Carbon reductions and health co-benefits from US residential energy efficiency measures

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Levy, Jonathan I ^a   Woo, May K ^a   Penn, Stefani L ^a   Omary, Mohammad ^b   Tambouret, Yann ^c   Kim, Chloe S ^a   Arunachalam, Saravanan ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; carbon dioxide; energy efficiency; power plant; public health; residential

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMBUSTION; EMISSION CONTROL; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; FOSSIL FUELS; HEALTH; HOUSING; POLLUTION; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CARBON REDUCTION; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; HEALTH CO-BENEFITS; IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES; POLLUTANT EMISSION; RESIDENTIAL; RESIDENTIAL COMBUSTION; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOSSIL FUEL; HEALTH STATUS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POWER PLANT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962220822     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034017     Document Type: Article

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