EPA's Solution to Pollution Deaths? Change the Math to Hide Them Then Allow More Pollution as a Result

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 Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution....

The E.P.A. had originally forecast that eliminating the Obama-era rule, the Clean Power Plan, and replacing it with a new measure would have resulted in an additional 1,400 premature deaths per year. The new analytical model would significantly reduce that number and would most likely be used by the Trump administration to defend further rollbacks of air pollution rules if it is formally adopted.

See the bolded text about.  No lives will be saved.  Those people are still going to die.  What the Republican-led EPA is seeking to do is change the system to say those deaths are not caused by pollution.  This is exactly what their corporate overlords want, allowing increasingly looser rules for polluters such as coal plants.

The proposed shift is the latest example of the Trump administration downgrading the estimates of environmental harm from pollution in regulations. In this case, the proposed methodology would assume there is little or no health benefit to making the air any cleaner than what the law requires.

YOU READ THAT CORRECT.  Republicans are changing the rules to read that clean air has "little or not health benefit...."

The E.P.A., when making major regulatory changes, is normally expected to demonstrate that society will see more benefits than costs from the change.

....in this case, the change actually disregards potential dangers to public health.

This is the corruption that happens in the Trump, Republican swamp, where former industry lobbyists take over power of OUR government.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/climate/epa-air-pollution-deaths.html