The good news is that fewer Americans are going to die as a result of air pollution. The bad news is that the reduction is due to an accounting trick, not improvements in air quality. A year go, the Trump EPA "had originally forecast that eliminating [President Obama's] Clean Power Plan and replacing it with a new measure would have resulted in an additional 1,400 premature deaths per year," according to the New York Times. Apparently that fact -which professionals will recall embarrassed the White House when it came out at the time the agency announced its replacement rule for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants - is no longer true.
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