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For our health footnotes

  1. State of Global Air Report 2019. Health Effects Institute Special Report. Boston, MA. 

  2. National Pollutant Inventory Database. 

  3. Unearthing Australia’s toxic coal ash legacy. Environmental Justice Australia, 1 July 2019

  4. Lethal Power, Greenpeace, August 2020. 
  5. The Dirty Truth: Australia’s most polluted postcodes. Australian Conservation Foundation. 16 November 2018. 

  6. Mannucci, PM. Airborne pollution and cardiovascular disease: burden and cause of an epidemic. European Heart Journal vol 34(17), 2013. 

  7. The health burden of fine particle pollution from electricity generation in NSW, Dr Ben Ewald report for Environmental Justice Australia. November 2018. 

  8. Submission on the Victorian brown coal-fired power stations licence reviews. Doctors for the Environment, February 2018. 

  9. Global SO2 Emission Hotspot Database, Ranking the World's Worst Sources of SO2 Pollution. See page 8. Greenpeace Environment Trust, August 2019. 
  10. Note that the Australian standard and the World Health Organisation standards differ. For more, see Nature Conservation Council, Media Release: Vales Point Air Pollution Exceeds World Health Organisation Pollution Standards Six Times. 21 August 2019. 

  11. Out of the Ashes. Hunter Community Environment Centre, March 11 2019. 

  12. The health burden of fine particle pollution from electricity generation in NSW, Dr Ben Ewald report for Environmental Justice Australia. November 2018. 

  13. Port Augusta feared power station pollution put lives at risk. The Advertiser / News Corp. 22 March 2019. 

  14. Read more at: NSW EPA gives coal-fired power stations a licence to harm communities. Environmental Justice Australia. January 30 2019. 

  15. State of Global Air Report 2019. Health Effects Institute Special Report. Boston, MA. See page 9. 

  16. Impact of Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions on Children’s Health: A Systematic Review of the Epidemiological Literature, April 2019, Amster, E. & Lew Levy, C.

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