With coal, the problem isn't just climate change

It’s no secret that under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency is working to replace existing laws with more relaxed regulations. While the debate on air pollution regulations, for example, often centers on climate change, these polices also have more immediate impacts as well. Before clamoring to support President Trump’s environmental pullback, it’s worth taking a look at the impact that some of the EPA proposals would actually have, not on some imagined future, but on a very real present.

Take, for example, the EPA’s proposed Affordable Clean Energy Act that would essentially replace the existing Clean Power Plan.