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SUMMARY:Environmental and Health Impacts of Energy Regulations
DTSTART:20180111T150000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Christine Choirat from the Harvard TH Chan School of Publi
 c Health\nAbstract\nAir pollution\, in particular fine particulate matter 
 (PM2.5)\, is associated with harmful health effects\, even at levels below
  the current standards and even for short-time exposures.  Sulfur dioxide
  (SO2) is a major precursor of PM2.5.  It is estimated that in the US abo
 ut 2/3 of all SO2 come from electric power generation that relies on burni
 ng fossil fuels\, like coal.\nThe 1990 Acid Rain Program set a goal of red
 ucing annual SO2 by 10 million tons (below 1980 levels).  It specified a 
 market-based cap-and-trade system of SO2 allowances for fossil fuel-fired 
 power plants: if plant emissions exceeded distributed allotment\, allowanc
 es could be purchased from other plants.  Besides allowances\, plants cou
 ld install pollution controls\, change fuel\, or reduce production.\nPower
  plant emissions spread and potentially impact populations throughout the 
 country.  In this talk\, we will show how we use data science tools at sc
 ale to study the whole chain of accountability: intervention\, emissions\,
  ambient air quality\, and health outcomes\, leveraging knowledge from atm
 ospheric chemistry to model long-range pollution transport.\n\nBiography\n
 Christine Choirat is a research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School
  of Public Health and at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. 
 Christine was trained as a statistician (PhD 2003\, Paris Dauphine).  Her
  research leverages data science and high-performance computing to study e
 nvironmental and health policy\, with a particular interest for the impact
 s of energy production. https://scholar.harvard.edu/cchoirat/biocv\nRecent
  published works include The New England Journal of Medicine\, Epidemiolog
 y\, Annals of Internal Medicine\, and Journal of the American Medical Asso
 ciation.\n\n 
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