How Many People Will Trump’s Energy ‘Emergency’ Kill?

So let’s do the math: a 90-day extension means just under a quarter of those events will happen in a period when this particular air would otherwise have been free of coal smoke. That’s 112 asthma attacks that don’t need to happen, four heart attacks, a couple of asthma ER visits, an extra hospital admission, and yes, between 10 and 11 dead people.