If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin denied a report from The New York Times that his department will no longer consider the cost to human life incurred from two pollutants ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will stop calculating how much money is saved in health care costs avoided and deaths prevented from air pollution rules that curb two deadly pollutants.

The EPA will no longer apply a dollar amount to health benefits from clean air. A new rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on how it calculates curbing air pollution could have harmful health ...

Ever since Ronald Reagan was president, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a value to human life. If you think too long about it, it’s a bit crass, but the upshot was to provide some ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a rule limiting the scope of state and tribal review of federal projects’ effect on water quality, a step toward preventing governors of blue states ...

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In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...

The agency wants to curtail a section of the Clean Water Act that Democratic governors have used to restrict fossil fuel development. By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington The ...