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Trump’s EPA May Cause as Many U.S. Deaths as the Coronavirus

Climate, Coronavirus, Corruption, Crony Capitalism, Health, News / May 14, 2020

“Putting the potential mortality from these two actions  together gets us up to 90,000 deaths.  That’s for only two EPA actions.  The total for all of the Trump EPA’s rollbacks would be higher.   No doubt there could be disagreement about these numbers, but they do have credible support.  Even if we discount these numbers significantly, …

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Sierra Club: Toxic Tragedy: Andrew Wheeler Has Betrayed Congress and Shamelessly Cooked the Books to Help Coal Barons

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News / February 1, 2019

Toxic Tragedy: Andrew Wheeler Has Betrayed Congress and Shamelessly Cooked the Books to Help Coal Barons Andrew Wheeler, acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has proposed that the EPA ignore the public health benefits provided by the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). Wheeler arbitrarily decreed the harms posed by mercury and other …

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