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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

E.P.A. Will Stop Assigning Dollar Value to Lives Saved from Air Pollution — Static01.nyt.com

E.P.A. Will Stop Assigning Dollar Value to Lives Saved from Air Pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency, under President Trump, plans to stop assigning a monetary value to lives saved by reducing two common air pollutants — fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone — when setting industry rules, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times. For decades the