Tell your state leaders to switch to life-saving industrial heat pumps!

A new American Lung Assocation report has calculated that switching from industrial combustion boilers to industrial-scale heat pumps across the U.S. would save over $1.1 trillion in health costs and prevent 77,200 air pollution deaths by 2050 — as well as avoiding 33 million asthma attacks, 13 million lost school days, and 3.4 million lost workdays!

The researchers found that all of these public health benefits can come from upgrading only about 33,500 industrial combustion boilers across the nation that operate at less than 200 degrees Celsius, making them easily replaceable by industrial-scale heat pumps. These combustion boilers are used in everything from food processing to textile manufacturing to chemical production to paper factories, and they release a range of air pollutants including nitrogen oxides, fine particulate matter (soot), and sulfur dioxide, all of which cause severe respiratory problems.

There are political options available right now for state leaders to accelerate this upgrade and help Americans breathe easier! The South Coast Air Quality Management District in California, covering much of Los Angeles, has already issued first-in-the-nation new rules to phase out combustion boilers and electrify industrial heating. In jurisdictions where the political support for phase-out mandates isn’t yet there, ensuring a supportive legal, regulatory, tax credit, and permitting regime for industrial-scale heat pump can also help accelerate and incentivize a virtuous cycle of clean heating adoption.

Tell your state leaders to switch to life-saving industrial heat pumps!