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EPA stops assigning dollar value to lives in clean-air rule analyses — Static01.nyt.com

EPA stops assigning dollar value to lives in clean-air rule analyses

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the monetary value of lives saved when setting limits on two widespread air pollutants, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone, effectively treating those benefits as worth zero dollars in cost-benefit analyses. Last week the agency said it would calculate only the costs

Trump granted two-year exemption for Arizona copper smelter after EPA email guidance — Static01.nyt.com

Trump granted two-year exemption for Arizona copper smelter after EPA email guidance

President Trump exempted Freeport-McMoRan’s copper smelter in Miami, Arizona, from federal air-quality limits for two years, and emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times show an E.P.A. official guided a lawyer for the company on how to request the exemption. The smelter, one of only