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- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revised its evaluation of air pollution rules by eliminating the value of a statistical life, once $11.7 million per person.
- This change assigns a $0 market value to human lives in regulatory decisions.
- Critics say the shift, influenced by the Trump administration, undercuts health benefits in cost-benefit analyses.
- Experts warn the move could raise pollution and reverse progress since the 1970 Clean Air Act.
