As the government struggles to keep businesses afloat through the pandemic, the Administration is sitting on about $43 billion in low-interest loans for clean energy projects. Critics accuse the Energy Department of partisan opposition to disbursing the funds.
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Important new UCLA study shows clean energy reduces pollutants that make people more susceptible to COVID-19.
See: https://ucla.app.box.com/s/xyzt8jc1ixnetiv0269qe704wu0ihif7
Effects of Residential Gas Appliances on Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality and Public Health in California.pdf April 2020
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Sciences
“There has been considerable focus on building electrification’s potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and less focus on how electrification can also yield significant air quality and public health benefits . … Exposure to the pollutants produced from gas appliances can be detrimental to human health; thus, one significant benefit of replacing natural gas (hereafter referred to as “gas”) appliances with electric appliances would be the elimination of indoor air pollution that comes from burning gas indoors . … This report presents the adverse health effects resulting from the residential use of gas appliances and outlines the potential benefits of transitioning residential gas appliances to all-electric appliances. These benefits are not only related to GHG emission reductions, but also are related to improving indoor and outdoor air quality, as well as subsequent health and economic effects from pollutant reductions.”