Christopher W Tessum
Biographic Data
| ID | 6928003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Tessum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Tessum |
| SIGNATURE | TESSUM C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8864-7436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Distributional impacts of fleet-wide change in light duty transportation: Mortality risks of PM 2.5 emissions from electric vehicles and Tier 3 conventional vehicles
Light-duty transportation continues to be a significant source of air pollutants that cause premature mortality and greenhouse gases (GHGs) that lead to climate change. We assess PM 2.5 emissions and its health consequences under a large-scale shift to electric vehicles (EVs) or Tier-3 internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) across the United States, focusing on implications by states and for the fifty most populous metropolitan statistical areas (MS…
Air pollution mortality from India’s coal power plants: Unit-level estimates for targeted policy
Air pollution from coal-fired electricity generation is an important cause of premature mortality in India. Although pollution-related mortality from the sector has been extensively studied, the relative contribution of individual coal-fired units to the fleet-wide mortality burden remains unclear. Here, we find that emissions from a small number of units drive overall mortality. Units producing just 3.5% of total generation and constituting less…
Air quality, health, and equity impacts of vehicle electrification in India
Ambient air pollution in India accounts for 870 000 deaths per year, including 43 000 from road transportation. Vehicle electrification could posit a sustainable solution. However, 3/4th of India’s electric grid is powered by coal, emitting large amounts of PM 2.5 , SO 2 , and NO x . This leads to uncertainty regarding the health benefits and distributional consequences from vehicle electrification. Our results show that if electric vehicles made…
Estimated impacts of forest restoration scenarios on smoke exposures among outdoor agricultural workers in California
As wildfires continue to worsen across western United States, forest managers are increasingly employing prescribed burns as a way to reduce excess fuels and future wildfire risk. While the ecological benefits of these fuel treatments are clear, little is known about the smoke exposure tradeoffs of using prescribed burns to mitigate wildfires, particularly among at-risk populations. Outdoor agricultural workers are a population at increased risk …
Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-related exposure impacts. We present a methodological framework linking landscape ecology, air-quality modelling and health impact assessment to quantify…
PM 2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States
Nearly all major emission categories contribute to the systemic PM 2.5 exposure disparity experienced by people of color.
Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure
Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution exposure is the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States. Here, we link PM 2.5 exposure to the human activities responsible for PM 2.5 pollution. We use these results to explore “pollution inequity”: the difference between the environmental health damage caused by a racial–ethnic group and the damage that group experiences. We show that, in the United States, PM 2.5 exposure is …
An inter-comparison of the social costs of air quality from reduced-complexity models
Reliable estimates of externality costs—such as the costs arising from premature mortality due to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 )—are critical for policy analysis. To facilitate broader analysis, several datasets of the social costs of air quality have been produced by a set of reduced-complexity models (RCMs). It is much easier to use the tabulated marginal costs derived from RCMs than it is to run ‘state-of-the-science’ chemical t…
Health co-benefits of sub-national renewable energy policy in the US
State and local policy-makers in the US have shown interest in transitioning electricity systems toward renewable energy sources and in mitigating harmful air pollution. However, the extent to which subnational renewable energy policies can improve air quality remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we develop a systemic modeling framework that combines economic and air pollution models to assess the projected sub-national impacts of Renewabl…
Health and climate impacts of future United States land freight modelled with global-to-urban models
Air-quality-related health damages of maize
Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure
Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution exposure is the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States. Here, we link PM 2.5 exposure to the human activities responsible for PM 2.5 pollution. We use these results to explore “pollution inequity”: the difference between the environmental health damage caused by a racial–ethnic group and the damage that group experiences. We show that, in the United States, PM 2.5 exposure is …
An inter-comparison of the social costs of air quality from reduced-complexity models
Reliable estimates of externality costs—such as the costs arising from premature mortality due to exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 )—are critical for policy analysis. To facilitate broader analysis, several datasets of the social costs of air quality have been produced by a set of reduced-complexity models (RCMs). It is much easier to use the tabulated marginal costs derived from RCMs than it is to run ‘state-of-the-science’ chemical t…
Health co-benefits of sub-national renewable energy policy in the US
State and local policy-makers in the US have shown interest in transitioning electricity systems toward renewable energy sources and in mitigating harmful air pollution. However, the extent to which subnational renewable energy policies can improve air quality remains unclear. To investigate this issue, we develop a systemic modeling framework that combines economic and air pollution models to assess the projected sub-national impacts of Renewabl…
Health and climate impacts of future United States land freight modelled with global-to-urban models
Air-quality-related health damages of maize
PM 2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States
Nearly all major emission categories contribute to the systemic PM 2.5 exposure disparity experienced by people of color.
Estimated impacts of forest restoration scenarios on smoke exposures among outdoor agricultural workers in California
As wildfires continue to worsen across western United States, forest managers are increasingly employing prescribed burns as a way to reduce excess fuels and future wildfire risk. While the ecological benefits of these fuel treatments are clear, little is known about the smoke exposure tradeoffs of using prescribed burns to mitigate wildfires, particularly among at-risk populations. Outdoor agricultural workers are a population at increased risk …
Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-related exposure impacts. We present a methodological framework linking landscape ecology, air-quality modelling and health impact assessment to quantify…
Distributional impacts of fleet-wide change in light duty transportation: Mortality risks of PM 2.5 emissions from electric vehicles and Tier 3 conventional vehicles
Light-duty transportation continues to be a significant source of air pollutants that cause premature mortality and greenhouse gases (GHGs) that lead to climate change. We assess PM 2.5 emissions and its health consequences under a large-scale shift to electric vehicles (EVs) or Tier-3 internal combustion vehicles (ICVs) across the United States, focusing on implications by states and for the fifty most populous metropolitan statistical areas (MS…
Air pollution mortality from India’s coal power plants: Unit-level estimates for targeted policy
Air pollution from coal-fired electricity generation is an important cause of premature mortality in India. Although pollution-related mortality from the sector has been extensively studied, the relative contribution of individual coal-fired units to the fleet-wide mortality burden remains unclear. Here, we find that emissions from a small number of units drive overall mortality. Units producing just 3.5% of total generation and constituting less…
Air quality, health, and equity impacts of vehicle electrification in India
Ambient air pollution in India accounts for 870 000 deaths per year, including 43 000 from road transportation. Vehicle electrification could posit a sustainable solution. However, 3/4th of India’s electric grid is powered by coal, emitting large amounts of PM 2.5 , SO 2 , and NO x . This leads to uncertainty regarding the health benefits and distributional consequences from vehicle electrification. Our results show that if electric vehicles made…
Environmental Science (9 works) · Air pollution (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 works) · Air quality index (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works) · Meteorology (6 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works) · Engineering (5 works)