Trump's 'Dirty Power Plan' Could Cost More Than 1,000 Lives a Year

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By Lorraine ChowAug 21, 2018, 1:44 pm96 pts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled on Tuesday its long-anticipated replacement of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. The new coal pollution rules will increase planet-warming carbon pollution and could cost more than a thousand American lives each year, according to the EPA's own estimates.…

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