"President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lee Zeldin furiously lashed out at the New York Times after it reported on leaked emails that revealed plans to abandon a decades-old practice that assigns a dollar value to lives saved by pollution rules. The shift, first reported by Times on Monday, would end the EPA's long-standing use of value of a statistical life calculations when weighing new limits on harmful pollutants."
"Cute BS headline. Entirely untrue, but the NY Times won't ever let the truth get in the way of their desire to dumb down their readers, he wrote. The Times posted this ENTIRELY AWARE that EPA will continue considering lives saved when setting pollution limits. Yet another dishonest, fake news claim courtesy of the New York Times. Not only is the EXACT OPPOSITE of this headline the actual truth,"
Leaked emails revealed plans to abandon a decades-old practice that assigns a dollar value to lives saved by pollution rules, prompting an agency response. The shift would end EPA use of value-of-a-statistical-life calculations when weighing new limits on harmful pollutants. The agency would still count compliance costs to industry but would no longer quantify public health benefits of rules targeting PM2.5 and ozone, pollutants linked to asthma, lung disease, and premature death. The change coincides with plans to cut hundreds of research scientists and would make repealing pollution limits from major industrial sources easier. Agency officials denied abandoning consideration of lives saved.
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