The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the future health risks of air pollution. It will use what they are calling the Affordable Clean Energy rule. But the methods used in this rule have never been peer-reviewed and are not scientifically sound. It relies on unfounded medical assumptions and discards more than a decade of peer-reviewed E.P.A. methods for understanding the health hazards linked to the fine particulate matter produced by burning fossil fuels.
The rule would slightly improve the efficiency of coal plants and allow older coal plants to remain in operation longer and result in an increase of particulate matter.
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