Article: Closing coal-burning power plant benefits cognitive development in kids

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Washington, July 15 -- A new research at Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has cited that by closing coal-fired power plants can positively influence children's cognitive development and health.

In the study, researchers tracked and compared the development of two groups of children born in Tongliang, a city in China's Chongqing Municipality â[euro]" one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in the city and one in utero after the Chinese government had closed the plant.

The researchers discovered that in the first group ...

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