Health Benefits of Reducing Particulate Air Pollution From Nonroad Diesel Engines

Hubbell, Bryan; Koman, Trish; Fox, Traci B.; McCubbin, Donald R.; Davidson, Kenneth L.; Hallberg, Aaron

doi:10.1097/00001648-200407000-00355

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“…43 While the number of publications reporting VSLs in the U.S. is quite large, we selected a value from this study because it has been applied extensively in the literature, making it easier to compare values in this manuscript to those published elsewhere. 2,6,44 The uncertainty around this mean value is represented by a Weibull distribution. We adjust this value in two ways.…”

Section: Estimating Economic Values Of Air Pollution Effectsmentioning

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Assessing Human Health PM_2.5and Ozone Impacts from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector Emissions in 2025

Fann

Baker

Chan

et al. 2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Incomplete information regarding emissions from oil and natural gas production has historically made it challenging to characterize the air quality or air pollution-related health impacts for this sector in the United States. Using an emissions inventory for the oil and natural gas sector that reflects information regarding the level and distribution of PM and ozone precursor emissions, we simulate annual mean PM and summer season average daily 8 h maximum ozone concentrations with the Comprehensive Air-Quality Model with extensions (CAMx). We quantify the incidence and economic value of PM and ozone health related effects using the environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP). We find that ambient concentrations of PM and ozone, and associated health impacts, are highest in a handful of states including Colorado, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia. On a per-ton basis, the benefits of reducing PM precursor emissions from this sector vary by pollutant species, and range from between $6,300 and $320,000, while the value of reducing ozone precursors ranges from $500 to $8,200 in the year 2025 (2015$).

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Section: Estimating Economic Values Of Air Pollution Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing Human Health PM_2.5and Ozone Impacts from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector Emissions in 2025

Fann

Baker

Chan

et al. 2018

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…There is a fairly high degree of convergence around valuations for restricted activity days (RAD) and minor restricted activity days (MRAD), the former ranging from about USD 64 to USD 130 in more recent studies, and the latter from USD 38 to USD 52. Non-OECD and older studies (e.g., Chestnut et al, 1997;Hubbell et al, 1999;Strukova et al, 2006) tend to estimate lower values for RAD and MRAD.…”

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Policy Interventions to Address Health Impacts Associated with Air Pollution, Unsafe Water Supply and Sanitation, and Hazardous Chemicals

Hunt

2011

OECD Environment Working Papers

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The purpose of the paper is to review the recent empirical literature relating to the quantification and valuation of the human health impacts of air pollution, hazardous chemicals, and unsafe water and sanitation, and their use in cost-benefit analysis, as an input to environmental policy decision-making. For each of these three environmental hazards, the nature and range of these health impacts are identified. The extent to which these impacts can, and have been, quantified and valued in monetary terms, is described. The use of this data in public policy-centred CBA is evaluated. The health impacts associated with particulates and low-level ozone, and quantified on the basis of epidemiological evidence, ranges from minor respiratory conditions to cardio-pulmonary related mortality. CBA that includes these impacts is an established feature of air quality regulation formulation in North America and Europe. Indeed, reduced mortality impacts have dominated the benefits included in many recent appraisals of such policy development, though the robust valuation of these impacts is still evolving. Heavy metals are associated with a variety of cancer impacts as well as on neurological development, renal dysfunction and a number of other impacts. These impacts are increasing being quantified and valued, in response to the requirement for more rigour arising from regulatory agencies in OECD countries. Increasingly sophisticated approaches to deal with the current attendant uncertainties are also being utilised. The health risks from unsafe water and sanitation derive from faecal contamination, bacteria and viruses and include gastroenteritis, diarrhoea amongst others. OECD countries use of quantified information relating to these risks in CBA is currently in the context of wastewater management, where benefit-cost ratios are sometimes found to be less than one. In contrast, in developing countries, health risks are included in the appraisal of water supply investments. In these countries, health risks are significant but generally not as important as time savings in the benefits side of the CBA, though the quantification and monetisation of health risks is often rather partial.health, environment, transport, policy implication, value of statistical life, meta-analysis

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Health Benefits of Reducing Particulate Air Pollution From Nonroad Diesel Engines

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Assessing Human Health PM_2.5and Ozone Impacts from U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Sector Emissions in 2025

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