by Sharon Zhang | Jan 12, 2026 | Air Pollution, Climate, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, News, Public Health
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps. For the first time in decades of the practice, The New York Times reports, the EPA will effectively set the cost of a human life at $0 when doing cost-benefit analysis for fine…
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by Mike Ludwig | Dec 11, 2025 | Donald Trump, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lee Zeldin, News, North Carolina
States that have slashed funding for environmental regulation over the last 15 years have put themselves in a tough position to handle the fallout of the Trump administration’s pro-polluter agenda, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Since 2010, 27 states have slashed budgets and 31 have cut staff at their own public health and environmental agencies…
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