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EPA to stop considering lives saved when setting rules on air pollution
The EPA will no longer include avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths in ozone and PM2.5 regulations, reversing decades of practice, impacting vulnerable groups.
- The Environmental Protection Agency plans to stop counting health benefits when regulating ozone and fine particulate matter, reversing decades of valuing human life in cost-benefit analyses, The New York Times reports.
- Internal EPA emails and documents show the agency will exclude health gains from reducing ozone and fine particulate matter, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce welcomed the change, with Mary Durbin calling it a rebalancing of regulations.
- Health studies show ozone and fine particulate matter link to asthma, heart disease, emphysema, while recent research connects PM2.5 to Parkinson's, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, dementia, type 2 diabetes, and low birth weight in infants.
- Environmental law experts told The New York Times the shift runs counter to the EPA's mission and could weaken clean-air rules as data centers like xAI's Colossus near Memphis use dirtier power.
- On social media, users and critics responded, with Conor Rogers on X calling it `This reads like an Onion Headline of something a Republican would do` and Sen. Ruben Gallego warning it favors business over health.
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'Yet another dishonest, fake news claim courtesy of the New York Times': EPA head · American Wire News
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin slammed the New York Times on Monday for allegedly publishing fake news. The Times reported earlier that day that the EPA had decided to stop calculating “the health benefits of reducing air pollution” and stop “using the cost estimates of avoided asthma attacks and premature deaths to justify clean-air rules.” “Under President Trump, the E.P.A. plans to stop tallying gains from the …
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