EPA Will No Longer Consider Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business
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The policy change says the “quiet part out loud,” one environmental advocate said.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps. For the first time in decades of the practice, The New York Times reports, the EPA will effectively set the cost of a human life at $0 when doing cost-benefit analysis for fine…

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