| The Environmental Protection Agency's cost-benefit rule, which applies to all future Clean Air Act rules, weighs all the economic costs of curbing an air pollutant but disregards its indirect public health benefits. If reducing power plants' toxic emissions also saves tens of thousands of lives each year by cutting soot, for example, these "co-benefits" will not be counted. The move is one of several environmental rollbacks the Trump administration is finalizing in the weeks before the president leaves office. | 
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