The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer calculate the monetary value of saving human lives, among other health impacts, when setting new clean air rules.
The agency quietly debuted this updated approach to weighing the costs and benefits of two air pollutants — small particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometers or smaller, called PM 2.5, and ozone — in a preliminary version of a new final rule for power plant emissions published late last week on the agency’s website.
In the notice, the agency said that its past valuations of the benefit of avoided deaths and illnesses from cutting pollution were too uncertain. “To ...
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