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E.P.A. Plans to Get Thousands of Pollution Deaths Off the Books by Changing Its Math

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The New York Times

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to change the way it calculates the health risks of air pollution, a shift that would make it easier to roll back a key climate change rule because it would result in far fewer predicted deaths from pollution, according to five people with knowledge of the agency’s plans.