Trump’s EPA Is Changing Its Math to Make Clean Power Plan Rollback Seem Less Deadly

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By Olivia RosaneMay 21, 2019, 3:21 pm252 pts
When Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan in August 2018, its own estimates said the reduced regulations could lead to 1,400 early deaths a year from air pollution by 2030. Now, the EPA wants to change the way it calculates the risks posed by…

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