Earlier this week, on Tuesday night, President Trump chose to rally supporters to make an announcement.
His speech, which took place in West Virginia, was made to make the public aware of a massive rollback of what has been described as “Obama-era environmental regulations” on coal-fired power plants and carbon dioxide emissions.
This plan, which was named Trump’s “Affordable Clean Energy” proposal, was suggested in order to control plants and emissions that contribute to climate change, and was developed in order to allow individual states the option as to whether they would curb emissions.
This proposal has since been questioned, as data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that if this plan was to go forward then it could possibly result in up to a staggering 1,400 more premature deaths – on a yearly basis – by 2030.
Further reports suggest that this deregulation would also contribute to the release of 12 times more carbon dioxide – at the very minimum -into the environment over the course of a 10 year period. This argument comes from The Washington Post.
Mary Anne Hitt, who works as Director for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, had this to say on the matter: “Coal-fired power plants have long been our biggest source of climate pollution here in the U.S., but they’re also our biggest source of all sorts of other pollution, like mercury and soot and smog and water pollution.
“And so, by rolling back these climate safeguards for power plants, the EPA’s own numbers show that up to 1,600 premature deaths every year could be attributed to this rollback.”
> Hannah Montgomery
Trump's Coal Plant Deregulation Proposal Claimed to Cause 1,400 Premature Deaths
