Lucas Henneman

Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

@apnews.com ran the numbers - rolling back regs on coal power plants will cost 30,000 lives per year and billions of dollars.

They used data from our study in @science.org

apnews.com/article/epa-...

Right-not all air pollution is the same, and emissions from burning coal is particularly bad

I’m an assistant prof. of environmental engineering, and this week my first PhD student defended his thesis.

Congrats Dr. Munshi Md Rasel!