A Harvard University-led research study analyzed the health impacts of existing and planned coal-fired power plants in Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
The researchers found that air pollution from coal-fired power plants in the area of study currently causes around 20,000 premature deaths per year.
If all planned coal projects are constructed, that figure could rise to 70,000 deaths per year by 2030.
Indonesia, Vietnam, China and Myanmar would be most affected.
Air pollution from coal-fired power plants is already a major killer in Southeast Asia and that death toll could more than triple in the next 15 years, according
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