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HI Feb 2019

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Healthy Indoors | 71 other air toxics remain unquantified due to data limitation. On the cost side, new information suggests that the EPA's original cost-estimate for MATS of $9.6 billion is much higher than the actual cost due to declines in natu- ral gas prices and lower than expected control equipment and renewable energy costs28. Yet, even with the original overestimate, the EPA projected that MATS would increase the monthly electric bill of the average American household by only $2.71 (or 0.3 cents per kilowatt-hour). This value is well within the price fluctuation consumers experienced between 2000 and 2011. The Bottom Line The science is clear, the health impacts of U.S. mercury emissions in the U.S. are large and disproportionately affect children and other vulnerable populations. Mercury emis- sion standards in the U.S. have markedly reduced mercury in the environment and improved public health. The mercu- ry-related benefits of MATS are much larger than previously estimated, the actual costs appear to be substantially lower than projected by the EPA, and the total monetized benefits across all pollutants far outweigh the costs of the standards. Sources HERE.

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