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Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say
The EPA's rollback removes key protections against greenhouse gases, risking increased emissions and health harms to overburdened communities, including those in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, experts say.
- This month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revoked the 2009 endangerment finding, and the administration said it "hurts industry and the economy" while President Donald Trump called climate change "a scam".
- Since 2009 the endangerment finding linked greenhouse gases to climate change and led to tighter regulation and cleaner air in some communities, while an EPA 2021 report with related conclusions is no longer on the agency's website.
- The EPA estimated Black people were 40% more likely to face extreme heat deaths, Latinos 43% more likely to suffer heat-related labor losses, and a November study found more than 46 million people live near energy infrastructure.
- On Wednesday, a coalition of health and environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the revocation, while public-health experts warn it will increase illness and death, hitting frontline communities hardest.
- Children born now will face extreme climate events two to seven times more often, and Christine Todd Whitman warned this reversal will reverberate for decades.
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Donald Trump heralding a rollback of federal greenhouse gas regulations on February 12, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)Climate change is usually assessed in scientific terms – rising temperatures, sea levels and carbon emissions. But increasingly, it can also be measured in household bills – higher insurance premiums, steeper energy charges and growing costs to protect homes, travel and health. So when US President Donald Trum…
Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas harde
In a stretch of Louisiana with about 170 fossil fuel and petrochemical plants, premature death is a fact of life for people living nearby. The air is so polluted and the cancer rates so high it is known as Cancer Alley . “Most adults in the area are attending two to three funerals per month,” said Gary C. Watson Jr., who was born and raised in St. John the Baptist Parish, a majority Black community in Cancer Alley about 30 miles outside of New O…
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Trump climate health rollback likely to hit poor, minority areas hardest, experts say
The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most.
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