Nearly All US Coal Power Plants Could Have Met Pollution Rules For Toxic Metals; Shitstain's EPA Cut Those Rules Anyway

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1. Coal kills* and even Trump knows that. This is known science so I have to assume Trump wants people dead

Deaths associated with pollution from coal power plants. (NIH study 2023)

A careful analysis found that air pollution from coal power plants is associated with greater mortality than previously thought.

It also found that such deaths have decreased due to air pollution regulations and coal power plant retirements.

The findings highlight the health benefits of continuing to reduce coal emissions.

Coal-burning power plants are a major source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution. Exposure to PM2.5 is associated with increased risk of death. To judge the success of measures to improve air quality, we need to estimate the health impacts, including death, associated with specific air pollution sources. Previous attempts to do so have assumed that PM2.5 from all sources is equally toxic. But coal PM2.5 is rich in sulfur dioxide, black carbon, and metals. Recent evidence suggests that such emissions may be more deadly than PM2.5 from other sources.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/deaths-associated-pollution-coal-power-plants

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* Coal kills. It kills the miners, it kills the environment around the mines, it kills the supportive capacity
of the planet, it kills fish 100s of miles from where it is burned, and it kills some of the people who breath in the by products of its combustion.