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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Seth Borenstein

EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren't dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here's what they say

Climate EPA Rollbacks Takeaways - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas "emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.''

The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation. Here's what eight of them said.

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