The rules that Trump’s EPA wants to eliminate are projected to save more than 30,000 lives and $275 billion every year. Relaxing the rules would mean millions more tons of pollutants, especially tiny airborne particles that can lodge in lungs and cause myriad health problems.
Melina Walling
Walling covers the intersections of climate change and agriculture in the Midwest and beyond for The Associated Press. She is based in Chicago.
