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Cost of New EPA Coal Rules: Up to 1,400 More Deaths a Year

FILE -- Power lines along the Columbia River in Wasco, Ore., June 17, 2017. The Trump administration on Aug. 21, 2018, made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants, and the fine print includes an acknowledgment that the plan would increase carbon emissions and lead to up to 1,400 premature deaths annually. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)