Public Health Impacts Analysis: Balico Gas Plant (Dr. Francesca Dominici)

Harvard researchers model PM2.5 dispersion from a proposed 3,500-megawatt Balico gas plant in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and find more than 1.28 million people face increased exposure. Projected healthcare costs reach $31–48 million annually and $625 million by 2040. The most affected census tracts skew older, lower-income and disproportionately Black.