The EPA fails to explain why asthma rates continue to rise while pollution continues to fall. In addition, the EPA ignores that its rule could increase asthma development while pushing more families into poverty
In an attempt to garner support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, President Obama and EPA officials have taken to linking climate change to an issue that hits most Americans close to home: asthma. The problem is that carbon dioxide—which the rule regulates—does not cause asthma.
