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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Energy. 2020 Apr 13;5(5):398–408. doi: 10.1038/s41560-020-0600-2

Table 2: Estimates of relative risk of a ZIP code-level asthma hospitalization/ERV related to each coal-fired power plant event in the 35 Jefferson ZIP codes with population greater than 5.

Estimates provided from a quasi-Poisson regression model with a ZIP code-level annual population offset and adjusted for annual percent non-Hispanic Black individuals, unemployed individuals, and individuals living below the federal poverty threshold, quarterly mean temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure, and year, quarter, and ZIP code. Includes Liang and Zeger cluster-robust standard errors.

Coal-fired power
plant transition date
RR (95% CI)a
 Q2-2013 1.08 (0.96, 1.19)
 Q4-2014 0.90 (0.75, 1.06)
 Q2-2015 0.81 (0.70, 0.92)
 Q2-2016 0.91 (0.80, 1.03)