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EPA Plans to Adopt New Math on Premature Deaths
May 20, 2019 at 2:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 25 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/20/epa-plans-to-adopt-new-math-on-premature-deaths/
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New York Times: The EPA plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution, one that experts said has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound.
The immediate effect of the change would be to drastically lower an estimate last year by the Trump administration that projected as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths per year from a proposed new rule on emissions from coal plants. That, in turn, would make it easier to defend the new regulation.
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spanone
(141,223 posts)motherfuckers
SamKnause
(14,825 posts)I am so sick of all the lying, corruption, and greed.
Freethinker65
(11,202 posts)Multiply all current estimates of premature deaths by one T (where T = 0)
