Trump’s EPA plans to claim US power sector emissions are insignificant. It's absurd.

If the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, eclipsing the annual emissions from all sources in Japan , Brazil , the UK , and Canada .

Fossil fuel- derived electricity is responsible for the second largest source of emissions in the US , behind transportation.

A single year of emissions will cause 5,300 deaths in 2022 , along with climate impacts that will result in global damages of $370 billion .

Experts have questioned whether pollution needs to be deemed “significant” in order to be subjected to the Clean Air Act .

“There is absolutely no legal basis for them to propose a pollutant like CO2 has to meet some sort of significance, they are making this up, this is make-believe law,” said Joseph Goffman , who led the EPA ’s office of air and radiation.