Quantifying coal power plant responses to tighter SO
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            emissions standards in China

Karplus, Valerie J.; Zhang, Shuang; Almond, Douglas

doi:10.1073/pnas.1800605115

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“…2.51b. Figure 2.51c indicates that the trend is much more negative over China for 2012-19 than for 2003-19, which is consistent with the observed decrease in industrial sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions driven by tighter emission standards (Karplus et al 2018). The 2012-19 trends are not significant over much of the Amazon basin, showing that most of the decrease in AOD occurred before 2012.…”

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Barichivich¹,

Osborn²,

Harris³

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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confidence: 58%

Global Climate

Barichivich¹,

Osborn²,

Harris³

et al. 2020

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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“…Data from the largest emitting firms with Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) equipment might offer some insight (Karplus, Zhang, and Almond, 2018). We report CEMS results in Supplementary Material Table S6.…”

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Ambiguous Pollution Response to COVID-19 in China

Almond¹,

Du²,

Zhang³

2020

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We thank the National Science Foundation for support through Award SES-1658888: "Collaborative Research: Market Based Emissions Policies" in China. We thank Janet Currie, Valerie Karplus, Anouch Missirian, and Wolfram Schlenker for helpful comments and Solveig Asplund for proofreading. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…The concentrations of particulate matter (PM) including PM 2.5 and PM 10 , SO 2 and NO x from CPPs plumes are required to decline to less than 10 mg m −3 , 35 mg m −3 and 50 mg m −3 by 2020, respectively, under the requirements of the ultra-low emission standards [12]. The implementation of the above control measures is expected to bring about dramatic reductions in air pollutants emissions and concentration [10,11,14]. A good understanding of the air quality and health impacts associated with reduced emissions is essential for policy makers.…”

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Air quality and health benefits of China’s emission control policies on coal-fired power plants during 2005–2020

Liu

Tong

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Coal-fired power plants (CPPs) dominate China's energy supply systems. Over the past two decades, the explosive growth of CPPs has led to negative air quality and health impacts in China, and a series of control policies have been implemented to alleviate those impacts. In this work, by combining a CPPs emission database over China (CPED), a regional chemical transport model (WRF-CMAQ), and the integrated exposure-response model, we summarized historical and ongoing emission control policies on CPPs over China, investigated the air quality and health impacts of China's CPPs during 2005-2020, and quantified the benefits of each policy. We found that despite the 97.4% growth of coal-fired power generation during 2005-2015, PM 2.5 exposures caused by emissions from China's CPPs decreased from 9.0 μg m −3 in 2005 to 3.6 μg m −3 in 2015. The active emission control policies have decreased CPPs-induced PM 2.5 exposures by 10.0 μg m −3 during 2005-2015. We estimated that upgrading end-of-pipe control facilities and early retirement of small and low-efficiency units could respectively reduce PM 2.5 exposures by 7.9 and 2.1 μg m −3 during 2005-2015 and avoid 111 900 and 31 400 annual premature deaths. Since 2015, China's government has further required all CPPs to comply with the so-called 'ultra-low emission standards' before 2020 as a major component of China's clean air actions. If the policy is fully deployed, CPPs-induced PM 2.5 exposures could further decrease by 2.5 μg m −3 and avoid 43 500 premature deaths annually. Our study confirms the effectiveness of tailored control policies for China's CPPs and reveals that those policies have played important roles in air quality improvement in China.

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Quantifying coal power plant responses to tighter SO ₂ emissions standards in China

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Quantifying coal power plant responses to tighter SO 2 emissions standards in China

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