As Trump Shreds Climate Rules, China’s Emissions Start to Fall

Trump has also pushed to keep coal plants running that had been on track to retire in a bid to revive the dying industry, as well as used his executive power to grant more than 100 companies two-year waivers for a slew of air rules for coal and chemical plants, as well as for other sources of industrial emissions. This is on top of the EPA proposing the rollback of climate rules for power plants.The allowance of more pollutants into the atmosphere is going to have a large impact, especially on the health of children and other highly vulnerable groups, explained Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under President George W. Bush and the former Republican governor of New Jersey. “They’re going to have more heart disease, more asthma, more lung problems,” she said.