Trump plan would rescue coal industry at expense of climate change

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The Trump administration Wednesday is expected to propose replacing Obama's Clean Power plan rule to combat climate change with one boosting coal use.

Published 12:01 AM EDT Jun 19, 2019

Presented as a change to the decades-old Clean Air Act, the Trump proposal would replace the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Obama's signature plan to confront climate change. That plan never took effect after the Supreme Court prevented its implementation in 2015. But by the EPA's own admission, that initial proposal could lead to 1,400 premature deaths by 2030. The revised proposal is expected to contain some slight differences.

Even if it survives a court challenge, the Trump proposal is not expected to do much to help an industry that's been buffeted by economic forces, energy analysts say. Mandy Gunasekara, who worked on the proposal as a top official in the EPA until leaving the agency in February, said ACE has a better chance of improving air quality than the Clean Power Plan because it's likelier to survive a court challenge.

 

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More pollution and deaths only in America everybody knows the real culprit in climate manipulation is US/President Trump Full steam ahead china russia india eu with your “water vapor”exhaust

Make black lung disease great again 👏👍👌

Just what we need more poison in the air we breath. Thanks realDonaldTrump .

Trump is a total dolt.

That’s great, first he has embarrassed us all over the world, caused hatred to run rampant, now he wants to choke us to death with coal emissions. He really is looking out for the American citizens isn’t he🤯🤯

Amen!

17 months and counting...

Those fools in Kentucky will fall for this again!

Making America Polluted Again.

There goes the air we breathe...

The very reason he ended science advisory committees.

he's trying to end the world a.s.a.p Obama said there's no greater threat to the U.S economy than global warming!

Good

Obama was racist against Coal.

Fools

We are running towards the apocalypse!

So much armchair scientists.... I'm sure Bill Nye will make some stupid show for them to 'understand'

How do you combat Bigfoot?

He is totally insane

Trump wants to kill the environment and us

For better or worse this is the future that we are handing to the children. BoostingCoalUse AgeOfTrump

Such a bad idea.

Obama was full of hot air anyways..

Coal is never clean

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