Increased risk of water contamination from a drilling technique known as “fracking.” An increase in greenhouse gas emissions by about 1 billion tons (907 million metric tons) from vehicles produced over the next decade - a figure equivalent to annual emissions of almost 200 million vehicles. Up to 1,400 additional premature deaths annually due to the pending repeal of a rule to cut coal plant pollution. On the opposite side of the government’s ledger, buried in thousands of pages of analyses, are the “social costs” of rolling back the regulations. Industry windfalls of billions of dollars more could come from a freeze in vehicle efficiency standards that will yield an estimated 79 billion-gallon (300 million-liter) increase in fuel consumption. The AP identified up to $11.6 billion in potential future savings for companies that extract, burn and transport fossil fuels.
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