The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting ...

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

The Trump administration is now acting to eliminate even the pretense of concern with impacts on human health. In effect, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is no longer considering the economic costs of harm to human health from air pollutants.

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 ...

In theory, the EPA could still include the number of lives saved in how it considers the upside of a regulation without ...

Human health will no longer be factored into US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cost-benefit calculations of air ...

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 ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

Lowell, passed its committee Monday 5-3 along party lines, heading to the Senate Appropriations Committee, but testifiers ...