Air Pollution and Children’s Health

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The NYT’s latest climate newsletter highlights a new journal article identifying how the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in the Eastern United States, has notable health benefits for children in these regions—notably, preventing asthma, preterm births, autism, and low birth weight— while providing savings of up to $350 million. Abt conducted one of the first studies to investigate the public health benefits of this initiative, and helped lead the new study.