05-21-2019, 03:48 AM
Quote:The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to change how it calculates the health risks of air pollution resulting in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution, The New York Times reported Monday. The shift will reportedly make it easier to roll back the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The EPA's had initially calculated that repealing and replacing the climate policy would have resulted in an additional 1,400 premature deaths per year. The new analytical model would significantly reduce that number, making it easier for the Trump administration to defend further rollbacks, according to the Times.EPA to implement change reducing number of predicted deaths from air pollution: report | TheHill
Hey, just fiddle the numbers a bit in the name of deregulation and free markets and forget about the real consequences, right?