A new rule by the EPA to no longer consider the economic cost of human health from two major air pollutants in its ...

The new rule does not estimate the economic value of health benefits from reducing NOx and other types of air pollution under ...

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

When indoor air pollution makes the news in western countries, it often feels like a local issue. One week it focuses on wood ...

Cost-benefit analysis has been a key component of EPA regulations. Any decision to raise or lower air quality standards or ...

The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer assign economic value to lives saved or health problems avoided when ...

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

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

Instead of assessing the value of saving human lives, the EPA will calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits.

"What's important is that the EPA can improve upon what we did to identify pollution that's under-reported," Paul Bergstrand said.