In Houston, at a gathering meant to celebrate energy abundance, the Trump administration's EPA formally dismantled decades of federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants — a decision framed as economic liberation but mourned by scientists and health advocates as a generational wound. The agency claims $300 billion in savings for industry; independent analysis suggests the true cost may be measured in tens of thousands of lives lost each year to dirtier air and a warming planet. Beyond the immediate rollback, the administration moved to foreclose future regulation,
Trump EPA repeals power plant emissions rules, eliminating $300bn in costs
Environmental groups estimate the rollback could result in approximately 30,000 preventable deaths annually from increased air pollution and climate-related health impacts.