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The US EPA repealed a climate law that would have saved $34 billion in annual health costs
Before Scott Pruitt was sworn in as the chief of the US Environmental Protection Agency under president Donald Trump, he was at odds with the organization. He vowed to dismantle several of the EPA’s current regulations limiting pollution, even going so far as suing the federal agency multiple times as Oklahoma’s attorney general. Today, Oct. 10, Pruitt followed through on his pledge to roll back one of the Obama administration’s most important pieces of environmental legislation...
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You see, health care costs are paid by people, but gains from fossil fuels are pocketed by corporations and politicians. Not to mention the gains by pharma and insurance companies as more people get sick.
The circle of life, such as it is.