{"id":302,"date":"2018-02-21T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:38:58","slug":"reducing-annual-electricity-use-by-15-nationwide-would-save-more-than-six-lives-every-day-prevent-nearly-30000-asthma-episodes-each-year-and-save-americans-up-to-20-billion-through-avoided-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/21\/reducing-annual-electricity-use-by-15-nationwide-would-save-more-than-six-lives-every-day-prevent-nearly-30000-asthma-episodes-each-year-and-save-americans-up-to-20-billion-through-avoided-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing annual electricity use by 15% nationwide would save more than six lives every day, prevent nearly 30,000 asthma episodes each year, and save Americans up to $20 billion through avoided health harms annually."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-303\" src=\"http:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/logo.png\" alt=\"American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy\" width=\"206\" height=\"59\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 class=\"inner-page-title\">Save Energy, Protect Health: How Energy Efficiency&nbsp; Can Prevent 30,000 Asthma Attacks Each Year<\/h1>\n<p>February 21, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Media Contact(s): <a href=\"mailto:dselak@aceee.org\">Dawn Selak<\/a>, 202-507-4043, Communications Manager<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>Washington, DC<\/em>\u2014Saving energy can reduce the number of asthma attacks and other harmful health effects of air pollution from power plants, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/aceee.org\/research-report\/h1801\"><em>Saving Energy, Saving Lives: The Health Impacts of Avoiding Power Plant Pollution with Energy Efficiency<\/em><\/a>, a pioneering new report released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) and Physicians for Social Responsibility that looks at the impact of energy efficiency on US states and cities. In fact, reducing annual electricity use by 15% nationwide would save more than six lives every day, prevent nearly 30,000 asthma episodes each year, and save Americans up to $20 billion through avoided health harms annually.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/aceee.org\/press\/2018\/02\/save-energy-protect-health-how\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/aceee.org\/press\/2018\/02\/save-energy-protect-health-how<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save Energy, Protect Health: How Energy Efficiency&nbsp; Can Prevent 30,000 Asthma Attacks Each Year February 21, 2018 Media Contact(s): Dawn Selak, 202-507-4043, Communications Manager Washington, DC\u2014Saving energy can reduce the number of asthma attacks and other harmful health effects of air pollution from power plants, according to&nbsp;Saving Energy, Saving Lives: The Health Impacts of Avoiding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/21\/reducing-annual-electricity-use-by-15-nationwide-would-save-more-than-six-lives-every-day-prevent-nearly-30000-asthma-episodes-each-year-and-save-americans-up-to-20-billion-through-avoided-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reducing annual electricity use by 15% nationwide would save more than six lives every day, prevent nearly 30,000 asthma episodes each year, and save Americans up to $20 billion through avoided health harms annually.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efficiencyforall.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}