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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/trump-epa-coal-plan-deathsTHE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS BURYING EVIDENCE ITS COAL PLAN WILL KILL THOUSANDS
The E.P.A. has reportedly been ordered to get thousands of deaths off the books by altering the way it calculates the risks of air pollution.
BY BESS LEVIN
MAY 20, 2019 7:13 PM
Last August, the soot fetishists in the Trump administration released a proposal to prop up dying coal plants by giving states free rein to come up with their own rules, or let them petition to opt out of profit-killing regulations altogether. Among the many problems with Donald Trumps Affordable Clean Energy rule? Technical analysis from his own Environmental Protection Agency showed that whereas Barack Obamas Clean Power Plan was expected to prevent between 1,500 and 3,600 premature deaths annually by 2030, Trumps replacement would cause as many as 1,400 premature deaths (just in America) each year. To many people, that seemed like a lot! So the administration has come up with a new tactic to get the nation on board. No, its not to keep Obamas plan in place or to actually make sources of human-killing dirty energy comply with any sort of legitimate oversight. Instead, its to ignore science to get those pesky predicted deaths out of future disclosures.
The New York Times reports that the E.P.A. plans to get thousands of deaths off the books, not by doing anything to actually prevent those deaths, but by altering the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, which would make it easier to roll back a key climate-change rule. (According to reporter Lisa Friedman, The E.P.A. . . . is normally expected to demonstrate that society will see more benefits than costs from a rule change, and apparently some people dont get that killing off four figures worth of Americans per annum is a worthy trade-off for increased corporate profits.) Naturally, experts say the new modeling method is not scientifically sound, a situation that obviously poses no concern for this White House:
The proposed shift is the latest example of the Trump administration downgrading the estimates of environmental harm from pollution in regulations. In this case, the proposed methodology would assume there is little or no health benefit to making the air any cleaner than what the law requires. . . . in the real world, there are no safe levels of the fine particulate pollution associated with the burning of fossil fuels.
Fine particulate matterthe tiny, deadly particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstreamis linked to heart attacks, strokes, and respiratory disease.
The five people familiar with the plan, all current or former E.P.A. officials, said the new modeling method would appear in the agencys analysis of the final version of the replacement regulation . . . which is expected to be made public in June.
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Fine particulate matterthe tiny, deadly particles that can penetrate deep into the lungs and enter the bloodstreamis linked to heart attacks, strokes, and respiratory disease.
The five people familiar with the plan, all current or former E.P.A. officials, said the new modeling method would appear in the agencys analysis of the final version of the replacement regulation . . . which is expected to be made public in June.
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The E.P.A. has reportedly been ordered to "get thousands of deaths off the books" (Original Post)
G_j
May 2019
OP
spanone
(135,815 posts)1. Most Despicable administration in our History.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)2. There simply are no words for this "administration"...
...at least, none I could use safely here. (Hi, Agent Mike!... )
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)7. Or for the ONE HUNDRED MILLION motherfuckers who support this
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)3. IOW -- Cook the books.
Lie to the taxpayers.
Javaman
(62,510 posts)4. in other words...
the EPA is using the same tactics the orange asshole used to undervalue his real estate holdings on his tax forms.
hey, its only lives..
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)6. The sanctity of life means nothing to them.
Where the hell are the "moral" Christian Republicans?
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)8. In 91 our group was told it was illegal in GDR to publish reports of kids damaged by coal pollution
After the fall of the wall, the world had seen videos of people sweeping up coal dust every morning near coal burning plants.
Our group was told that you would be thrown in jail if you asked the govt for any info on pollution.
So now WE have this!!!