New EPA rule could save 4,200 lives a year. Industry warns it could cost Biden his reelection.

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I'll note that there is a long history of manufacturers overstating the impact that environmental regulation will have on their business; the EPA numbers for financial impact are always based on "keep the existing process as-is, but add pollution controls" and not "Change how you do things to avoid producing pollution in the first place"

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I'm not interested in listening to greedy bosses and their lobbyists telling me more danger is safer.

Since all these industry and groups say is some dire bulllshit about costing jobs about everything why should we believe anything they say?

even as industry groups warn that the standard could erase manufacturing jobs across the country.

They say the tougher standard for soot and other pollutants could destroy factory jobs and investments in the Midwest and elsewhere

Oh fuck off.

So it's either sacrifice some peon's lives or go full Nazi?

Whenever one of these fucks with an army of lobbyists says anything its always because their hoard is at stake.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to significantly strengthen limits on fine particle matter, one of the nation’s most widespread deadly air pollutants, even as industry groups warn that the standard could erase manufacturing jobs across the country.

They say the tougher standard for soot and other pollutants could destroy factory jobs and investments in the Midwest and elsewhere, undermining Biden’s pitch that he has revitalized these areas more than Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner.

Efforts to curb PM2.5 — tiny particles measuring less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, or one-thirtieth the width of a human hair — have produced enormous public health benefits along with massive political pushback.

A limit of 9 micrograms could sharply increase the number of counties that are in violation of the soot standard or just below the threshold, according to a map produced by the American Forest & Paper Association, a trade group.

The regions just below the tougher soot standard include seven swing states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — where the Biden and Trump campaigns have focused most of their resources.

“If you look at the map and overlay in your mind ‘get out the vote’ areas for Biden in critical states, you can’t help but be concerned,” said Rich Gold, a Democratic lobbyist who leads the law firm Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group and represents the American Forest & Paper Association, among other industry clients.

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