{"347871":{"#nid":"347871","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Erik Johnson presents work on electricity transmission constraints at Morehouse College","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProf. Erik P. Johnson presented his paper \u0022Pollution and Health Impacts of Electricity Congestion,\u0022 coauthored with Juan Moreno-Cruz, at the Morehouse College Research Colloquium. \u0026nbsp;The paper examines the changes in emissions from electricity generators in response to transmission constraints in the electricity grid. \u0026nbsp;It also examines how pollution exposure and health outcomes change in each county in the northeastern US due to these constraints. \u0026nbsp;There is a broad pattern of reduced pollution and better health outcomes in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio with a large increase in pollution in the eastern seaboard of the United States. \u0026nbsp;The gains from the reduced pollution outweigh the losses from the increased pollution along the seaboard.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Erik Johnson presents work on electricity transmission constraints at Morehouse College"}],"uid":"28140","created_gmt":"2014-11-20 15:30:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:34","author":"Erika Underwood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["erika.underwood@econ.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}