screen? right after we got that headline, it gave birth to its own twin. new headline from the ap. epa gives coal plants a reprieve. yesterday the coal lobbyist who trump put in charge of the epa rolled back the obama era legislation that tightened up standards on polluting old fashioned coal burning power plants. he signed it as his own agency s data were released that showed how the administration has turned around american air quality so it s in decline. the epa said the further decline they are expecting from this rule change they signed yesterday should probably be expected to kill around 1400 americans every year that it s in effect. 1400 extra dead americans because of new air pollution that they are purposely causing.
trump put in charge of the epa signed new legislation to roll back the obama era legislation that had tied up excuse me, tightened up standards on polluting old fashioned coal burning power plants. he signed that new rule just as his own agency s data were released that showed how the trump administration has turned around american air quality so it s now in decline. trump s own epa says the furtherer quality decline they re expecting from this rule change they just signed yesterday should probably be expected to kill around 1,400 americans every year that it s in effect. 1,400 extra dead americans because of new air pollution that they re purposely causing. as i mentioned, the trump administration s epa chief is a coal industry lobbyist. and maybe you can spot the pattern here. trump s hand-picked epa director, coal lobbyist.
president trump s campaign for reelection is officially under way after his kickoff rally in florida. he treated the crowd to some of his greatest hits from the 2016 campaign which included bashing hillary clinton, invoking fear over immigration and accusing democrats of destroying the country. he also made more than 15 false claims during his 76-minute speech. so we have cnn reporter danielle dale he daniel dale with us to separate the fact from the fiction to separate the president as claim about the environment. let s listen. our air and water are the cleanest they ve ever been by far. all right. not true, daniel. tell us about this? it is not true. so we re in the middle of a long-term improvement in american air quality. many scientists attribute it to the clean air act in 1970, but