Melissa M. Ahern

TL;DR: This work estimates that the life cycle effects of coal and the waste stream generated are costing the U.S. public a third to over one‐half of a trillion dollars annually, and conservatively doubles to triples the price of electricity from coal per kWh generated, making wind, solar, and other forms of nonfossil fuel power generation, along with investments in efficiency and electricity conservation methods, economically competitive.

TL;DR: The results observed for 22 major U.S. cities are consistent with the hypothesis that community social capital enables better access to care, perhaps through improving community accountability mechanisms.

TL;DR: Investigation of the relations between health indicators and residential proximity to coal mining indicated that high levels of coal production were associated with worse adjusted health status and with higher rates of cardiopulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, lung disease, and kidney disease.

TL;DR: The food access/availability environment is an important determinant of health outcomes in metro and non-metro areas and future research should focus on more refined specifications that capture variability across non- metro settings.

TL;DR: Efforts to build trust and collaboration in a community may improve trust in physicians, health care quality, access, and preserve local health care control.