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==Death and disease attributable to fine particulate pollution from Widows Creek Fossil Plant==
In 2000 and again in 2004, Abt Associates issued a study commissioned by the Clean Air Task Force quantifying the deaths and other health affects attributable to the fine particle pollution from power plants. In 2010, Abt Associates again revised the study, the results of which were released by the Clean Air Task Force. The 2010 report found that over 13,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of cases of chronic bronchitis, acute bronchitis, asthma-related episodes and asthma-related emergency room visits, congestive heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, dysrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, chronic lung disease, peneumonia each year are attributable to fine particle pollution from U.S. power plants. The table below estimates the share of that death and illness attributable to the Widows Creek Fossil Plant. Assigning monetary valuations to death and illness is difficult. Abt assigned a value of $7,300,000 to a 2010 mortality, based on a range of government and private studies. Valuations of illnesses ranged from $52 for an asthma episode to $440,000 for a case of chronic bronchitis.<ref>[http://www.catf.us/resources/publications/files/Abt-Technical_Support_Document_for_the_Powerplant_Impact_Estimator_Software_Tool.pdf "Technical Support Document for the Powerplant Impact Estimator Software Tool,"] Prepared for the Clean Air Task Force by Abt Associates, July 2010</ref>
==August 2009: TVA considering shutting down some aging coal plants==
