Comment on “Co-Benefits to Children’s Health of the U.S. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”

Correspondence to the editor of EHP on a recently published paper.

Impact/Purpose

A recent publication in EHP (Perera F, Cooley D, Berbeian A, Mills D, Kinney P. Co-Benefits to Children’s Health of the U.S. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Environ Health Perspect. 2020 Jul;128(7):77006. doi: 10.1289/EHP6706) incorrectly notes causality determinations for some health outcomes that then quantify using BenMAP. This correspondence notes those errors.

Citation

Sacks, J. AND Tom Luben. Comment on “Co-Benefits to Children’s Health of the U.S. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Research Triangle Park, NC, 128(12):128001-01, (2020). [DOI: 10.1289/EHP8571]

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757377/

DOI: Comment on “Co-Benefits to Children’s Health of the U.S. Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative”