For years, when the EPA assessed the economic impact of new regulations, it weighed both the health costs for Americans and ...

Trump team accused of lowering the value of a human life from millions to ‘zero’ dollars: report - For decades, the ...

The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned ...

The Trump administration plans to stop assigning value to human life when analyzing the costs and benefits of air pollution ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 12 that it will no longer ascribe an economic ...

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary ...

The change means the EPA will focus rules for two pollutants only on the cost to industry, part of a realignment under ...

An internal email from an EPA supervisor, reported by the New York Times, stated that “to rectify this error, the EPA is no longer monetizing benefits from PM2.5 and ozone.” The agency also confirmed ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans on only considering the industrial cost of air pollution, not the human cost, when ...

Air pollution, like ozone and PM2.5, significantly damages nearly every major human body system, impacting cardiovascular, ...