Trump’s new pollution rules could cause up to 1,400 more premature deaths every year by 2030, according to the EPA

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• President Donald Trump‘s administration has released its new plan to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.
• The Affordable Clean Energy rule would impose looser regulations than former President Barack Obama’s proposed Clean Power Plan.
• According to an EPA analysis, Trump’s new rules could cause up to 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday released its new plan to regulate carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. 

Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy plan includes far less stringent regulations than the Clean Power Plan, which former President Barack Obama’s administration proposed in 2015. The new rules would allow states to write their own regulations for coal-fired power plants, whereas the Obama-era plan (which never went into effect) sought to shift electricity production to less carbon-intensive sources.

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