With a simple executive order reversing an Obama-era ban on exports of our clean coal technology, President Trump can save up to 439,000 lives a year.
That’s the number of Africans whom the World Health Organization estimates die from indoor air pollution because they have to rely on wood, charcoal, or dried animal dung for cooking, heat, and light. According to a top researcher for the WHO, “having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.”
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