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Environment
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks ago

The EPA will no longer calculate the lives saved thanks to air pollution restrictions

EPA will stop monetizing health impacts in air-pollution cost-benefit analyses and instead prioritize assessing compliance costs to industry for PM2.5 and ozone rules.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago
Environment

The EPA is changing how it considers the costs and benefits of air pollution rules

EPA will no longer assign dollar values to health benefits from fine particles and ozone, potentially weakening air pollution rules and increasing health risks.
fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago
Public health

Trump's EPA plans to ignore health affects of air pollution | TechCrunch

EPA plans to stop counting human health value in ozone and PM2.5 regulation, risking weaker pollution controls and increased pollution-related illness and deaths.
Environment
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 weeks ago

Trump's EPA Chief Chews Out NY Times After Email Leak Reveals Plan to Abandon Decades-Old Policy: Cute BS Headline'

EPA intends to stop using value-of-statistical-life calculations for pollution rules while continuing to count industry compliance costs.
Environment
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

EPA Will No Longer Consider Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business

The EPA will stop monetizing mortality and health benefits from PM2.5 and ozone, excluding those benefits from cost-benefit regulatory analyses.
Environment
fromFast Company
4 months ago

Trump administration moves to stop requiring polluters to report emissions

The EPA plans to end mandatory greenhouse gas reporting for over 8,000 industrial facilities, eliminating emissions tracking and reducing regulatory costs.
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