+4. **The EPA plans to adopt a new method for projecting the future health risks of air pollution, which experts say has never been peer-reviewed and is not scientifically sound.** The change would immediately lower an estimate from last year by the Trump administration that projected as many as 1,400 additional premature deaths per year from a proposed new rule on emissions from coal plants, making it easier to defend Trump's replacement for Obama’s signature climate change measure, the Clean Power Plan. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/climate/epa-air-pollution-deaths.html))
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