Shuttering Coal Plants Has Immediate Benefits to Children’s Health

This short video from Yale Climate Connections provides the results of a study done on children’s health, based on tests performed on two groups of subjects: those born two years before the closing of a coal-fired power plant in China, and an otherwise identical set born a year after the closure.  Not only did the first group have worse birth outcomes, they suffered slower neurodevelpoment, delayed motor development, and were deficient in a protein required for the growth of the brain.

Perhaps the isn’t a surprise, but tiny bodies don’t fare well in the presence of the toxic chemicals spewed into the air they breathe.

As the saying goes, it’s always the children who suffer most.  But that doesn’t have to be the case, does it?