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By cleaning up America’s air over the next fifty years, the country could prevent 4.5 million premature deaths, 1.4 million hospitalisations, 1.7 million cases of dementia and 300 million lost work days.
The result would be $700 billion a year in net benefits, ‘far more than the cost of the energy transition’.
In other words, a total decarbonisation of the US economy would pay for itself through public health gains alone.