According to the Associated Press, a survey shows new federal air pollution regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency will have a profound effect on coal-fired electricity and the communities where coal-fired power plants exist. Here is a look at the numbers:
* 3: Limits regulated by the new EPA rules: mercury, acid gases and particulate matter, according to a Bloomberg.
* 32: Or more coal-fired plants in 12 states will be forced to shut down, according to the Associated Press survey. Another 36 might have to close to the regulations.
* 51: Years the average age of coal-fired plants that will be retired.
* 14.7: Gigawatts, enough power for more than 11 million households, will be retired from the grid in 2014-15, when new rules take effect.
* 204: People employed by three Kentucky coal-fired plants that are being taken offline.
* 600: Jobs that will be eliminated in Ohio due to the closure of 11 American Electric power plants, Bloomberg reported.
* 11 billion: Dollars the EPA estimates will be the cost of upgrades to power plants the industry must pay to comply with the rules.
* 500: Or more units that will be idled temporarily in the next few years to install pollution controls.
* 3: Years being granted to plant operators to install pollution scrubbers. According to Bloomberg, the EPA has said it will grant additional time on a case-by-case basis.
* 90: Percent of toxic mercury emissions from power plants that will be cut due to the rules. Smog-forming nitrogen oxide will be halved and sulfur dioxide will be reduced by 70 percent, the Associated Press reported.
* 17,000: Premature deaths that might be prevented by the reduction of toxic emissions, according to EPA estimates.
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