Environmental and Public Health Effects of Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia

25 Pages·2017·9.21 MB·English

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Environmental and Public Health Effects of
Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia
Rosie Mueller1
University of Oregon
Camp Resources XXIV
August 7, 2017
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Introduction
My research focuses broadly on various effects of pollution
exposure including:
(cid:73) information on exposure to pollution
(cid:73) regulatory changes in the monitoring of pollution
(cid:73) pollution exposure on human health
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(cid:73) Does coal mining activity affect population pollution exposure
and human health?
(cid:73) Does the effect vary with mining technology?
(cid:73) Has the effect changed over time with changes to
environmental regulation?
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Overview
(cid:73) Run a difference-in-differences model of county-level mortality
rates as a function of changes in coal mining activity, using a
30-year panel dataset from 1983 to 2013
(cid:73) Use satellite observations of ambient particulate matter to
test whether exposure to air pollution could be a potential
mechanism
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Where are the mines?
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Surface Coal Mining
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Surface Coal Mining
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Surface Coal Mining
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Surface Coal Mining
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Relevant Literature
(cid:73) Coal mining and human health
(cid:73) Barnett et al. (2000); Lengerich et al. (2005);
Hendryx, O’Donnell, and Horn (2008); Hendryx (2008, 2009);
Ahern (2011); Aneja (2012); Kurth (2014)
(cid:73) Environmental pollution and human health
(cid:73) Chay and Greenstone (2003); Dockery (2001);
Pope and Dockery (2006); Cakmak (2007);
Brook et al. (2010)
(cid:73) Environmental regulation and pollution
(cid:73) Greenstone (2003); Bi (2017);