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EPA staff disputed claim fuel efficiency plan would save lives

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    How about the deaths from increased emissions and global warming? Have those been taken into account? I think they will dwarf both scenarios here. The article continues going on looking at the...

    In a June 18 memo posted by the EPA on a regulatory website on Tuesday, EPA staff said they believed the plan would increase traffic deaths by 17 a year from 2036 through 2045 because of an increase in vehicle travel, rather than reduce deaths by 150 per year over that time as the Transportation Department contended.

    How about the deaths from increased emissions and global warming? Have those been taken into account? I think they will dwarf both scenarios here. The article continues going on looking at the issue only from a financial perspective, specifically in the increased cost per vehicle. The real issue is that fossil fuels are contributing to making our planet uninhabitable, and need to be reduced and eventually phased out regardless of cost if we want to keep living on this planet.

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