Our analysis of health damages associated with power plants can be used to evaluate the benefits of specific pollution control options. To illustrate how it can be used, we calculate the benefits of two pollution abatement strategies that are not currently in widespread use in India: coal washing and installation of a flue-gas desulfurization unit (FGD). Although thermal power plants located more than 1,000 km from the pithead or in urban or sensitive or critically polluted areas are required to use coal containing no more than 34 percent ash content (CEA 2010), only 5 percent of non-coking coal is washed (Zamuda and Sharpe 2007). We analyze the costs and benefits of using washed coal at the Rihand plant in Uttar Pradesh. We also calculate the benefits of installing a flue-gas desulfurization unit at the Dahanu power plant in Maharashtra (the only plant to have installed a scrubber) and calculate the cost per premature death avoided.