Sean Reilly, E&E NewsOriginally published by E&E NewsThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today raised new barriers to protecting public health with a thicket of cost-benefit forecasting requirements for future climate and air pollution regulations.The changes make it more difficult to fully account for how regulations could reduce illness and deaths.The final rule marks another step in the deregulatory agenda of President Donald Trump’s administration and comes amid a flurry of rollbacks being finalized at the tail end of Trump’s term.The rule, announced by EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler at a virtual event at a conservative think tank this morning, is little changed from the draft released in June.Among the new requirements:.