内容摘要：Kramon is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

Kramon is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.

The same is true across the United States. The amount of tiny airborne particles in the last 10 years nationwide is one-third lower than 2000-2009, EPA statistics show. Smog pollution is down nearly 15% and sulfur dioxide has plunged 80%.“The Clean Air Act, the EPA’s founding legislation, has been a powerful engine for improving public health as our air has grown visibly clearer and cleaner,” said Gina McCarthy, who headed the EPA under President Barack Obama and served as Biden’s White House climate adviser. “Millions of Americans have avoided illnesses, hospital visits, and premature deaths thanks to EPA’s cleaner car and truck standards in concert with rules that limit industrial pollution.”

The Gibson Power Plant operates Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)The Gibson Power Plant operates Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Princeton, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)Five rules together were estimated to have more than $200 billion a year in net benefits, based on EPA documents that estimated reduced illnesses and deaths and the costs for companies to comply.

Three rules dealt with cars and trucks. The “clean car rule” is a tightening of EPA emission standards for vehicles that was supposed to take effect for 2027 model years and eventually have annual net benefits of more than $100 billion a year, according to the agency’s 884-page regulatory analysis. The EPA estimated that over the next three decades this rule alone would prevent 7.9 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 8,700 tons of particulate matter and 36,000 tons of nitrogen oxides.Two other proposed rules — one that deals with car models from 2023 to 2027 and another aimed at heavy trucks and buses — are estimated to save nearly $38 billion a year combined through reduced health problems from air pollution, according to EPA’s own detailed calculations.

Almost none of those benefits are to be found in 10 fact sheets the EPA produced in conjunction with Zeldin’s announcement. Nine make no mention of benefits from the rules, while eight mention the costs.

In 17 of the 20 rules with explicit cost-benefit analyses, AP found that estimated benefits are larger than the costs — and sometimes far larger.Alemania exportó bienes por valor de 160.000 millones de dólares a Estados Unidos el año pasado, según la Oficina del Censo. Eso fue aproximadamente 85.000 millones de dólares más de lo que Estados Unidos envió a Alemania, un déficit comercial que Trump quiere eliminar.

“Alemania es uno de los grandes inversores en América”, sostuvo Merz a los periodistas el jueves por la mañana. “Solo unos pocos países invierten más que Alemania en Estados Unidos. Estamos en tercer lugar en términos de inversión extranjera directa”.Trump ha atacado específicamente al sector automotriz alemán, que incluye marcas importantes como Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Porsche y Volkswagen. Los estadounidenses compraron automóviles, camiones y piezas de automóviles de Alemania por valor de 36.000 millones de dólares el año pasado, mientras que los alemanes compraron vehículos y piezas de Estados Unidos por valor de 10.200 millones de dólares.

El arancel del 25% de Trump sobre automóviles y piezas está diseñado específicamente para aumentar el costo de los automóviles fabricados en Alemania con la esperanza de que trasladen sus fábricas a Estados Unidos aunque muchas de las empresas ya tienen plantas en Estados Unidos con Volkswagen en Tennessee, BMW en Carolina del Sur y Mercedes-Benz en Alabama y Carolina del Sur.Hay solo tanto que Merz puede lograr en su opinión de que los aranceles “no benefician a nadie y dañan a todos” mientras está en Washington, ya que las negociaciones comerciales son un asunto de la comisión ejecutiva de la Unión Europea. Trump retrasó recientemente un arancel planificado del 50% sobre bienes provenientes de la Unión Europea, que de otro modo habría entrado en vigor este mes.