Attacks on EPA Threaten Health of American Families According to their press release:   The Clean Air Act will have saved Americans roughly $2 trillion by 2020 and prevented as many as 230,000 premature American deaths in that year alone due to asthma, heart disease, and other illnesses caused by air pollution, according to a new report released today by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The report comes as the EPA and Administrator Lisa Jackson faces increasing attack from the oil and coal industries and their allies for the agency’s role in protecting Americans from air and water pollution.  The report focuses on the future up to 2020.  And also from the report, this is just one of many benefits of the Clean Air Act: “Based on the scenarios analyzed in this study, the costs of public and private efforts to meet 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment requirements rise throughout the 1990 to 2020 period of the study, and are expected to reach an annual value of about $65 billion by 2020.1″ Statement of Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune: “Every single American benefits from clean air. The Clean Air Act has saved millions of Americans from heart attacks, asthma, [...]