President Trump's Dirty Power Plan

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Channel: The YEARS Project · 2018 · News & Politics

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President Donald Trump is replacing the Clean Power Plan with a dirty one that could result in the premature deaths of over a thousand Americans every year. He hopes his plan will help the coal industry, but it will worsen climate change.

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SOURCES:
[i] WashingtonPost.com. New Trump power plant plan would release hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the air. Aug 18 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-trump-power-plant-plan-would-release-hundreds-of-millions-of-tons-of-co2-into-the-air/2018/08/18/be823078-a28e-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f42e9af0e731
[ii] Archive.EPA.gov. FACT SHEET: Clean Power Plan By The Numbers. https://archive.epa.gov/epa/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-numbers.html
[iii] ibid.
[iv] NYTimes.com. New E.P.A. Rollback of Coal Pollution Regulations Takes a Major Step Forward
Image. Aug 20 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/climate/epa-clean-power-rollback.html
[v] Archive.EPA.gov. FACT SHEET: Clean Power Plan By The Numbers. https://archive.epa.gov/epa/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-clean-power-plan-numbers.html
[vi] Ibid.
[vii] CNBC.com. Trump administration to replace Obama's Clean Power Plan with weaker greenhouse gas rules for power plants. Aug 21 2018. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/21/trump-administration-to-replace-obamas-clean-power-plan.html

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