The White House just said your life is worth nothing. Yes, literally.
4 months ago
- #EPA
- #Public Health
- #Air Pollution
- EPA will no longer consider human health costs or lives saved in air pollution rules.
- Focus is on PM2.5 and Ozone, pollutants with severe health impacts.
- Health impacts translate to economic losses, historically factored into EPA regulations.
- Biden’s EPA rules previously estimated $250B/year savings and 200k lives saved.
- New policy values human life at zero in cost-benefit analyses.
- EPA claims variability in life valuation justifies excluding it from calculations.
- Upcoming regulation may remove climate science, costing $100B and raising gas prices.
- Legal challenges expected due to deviation from accepted administrative procedures.
- Recent court reversals suggest potential overturn of similar EPA/DoE decisions.
- Criticism highlights administration's prioritization of industry over public health.