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August 22, 2018

Coal Regulation Rollback Could Lead to 1,400 Premature Deaths Each Year
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President Trump traveled to Charleston, West Virginia, for a campaign
rally Tuesday, where he celebrated his administration's move to
dramatically roll back regulations for coal-fired power plants.

President Donald Trump: "We love clean, beautiful West Virginia coal. We
love it. Great. And, you know, it's indestructible stuff. In times of
war, in times of conflict, you can blow up those windmills. They fall
down real quick. You can blow up those pipelines. They go like this, and
you're not going to fix them too fast. You can do a lot of things to
those solar panels. But you know what you can't hurt? Coal. You can do
whatever you want to coal. Very important."

The Trump administration's own analysis says the environmental
deregulation could lead to as many as 1,400 premature deaths every year
by 2030. We'll have more on the rollback of regulations for coal-fired
power plants later in the broadcast.


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