The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that critics allege would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution. The EPA had originally forecast that eliminating the Obama-era rule, the Clean Power Plan, and replacing it with a new measure result in an additional 1,400 premature deaths per year. The new analytical model would significantly reduce that number.
By Lisa Friedman. New York Times. May 20, 2019
