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Trump EPA finalizes rollback making it harder to enact new public health rules Source: By. Brady Dennis, Washington Post • Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2020
New cost-benefit requirements could minimize the way the agency calculates the benefits of curbing harmful air pollution
The John E. Amos coal-fired power plant owned and operated by Appalachian Power in Winfield, W.Va., on Feb. 6. (Stacy Kranitz for The Washington Post)
The Trump administration finalized a rule Wednesday that could make it more difficult to enact public health protections, by changing the way the Environmental Protection Agency calculates the costs and benefits of new limits on air pollution.