Team Trump says it wants to “make America healthy again.” It also wants to make things easier on polluters. It can’t do both.

The federal government said the coal plants were needed for “grid reliability” and a regional haze-fighting plan violated the Clean Air Act. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth and then read the entire article at the link below.

The new rule does not estimate the economic value of health benefits from reducing NOx and other types of air pollution under the Clean Air Act. Critics said the change means EPA will ignore the economic value of lives saved, hospital visits avoided, and lost work and school days prevented.