The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. To pass a rule that stops companies from polluting, the EPA has to prove the benefits to public health outweigh the costs to industry. If the math doesn't balance, the rule dies. Two of the deadliest air pollutants in America are fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone, better known as soot and smog. They cause asthma, heart attacks, and early deaths. The EPA used to count all those prevented deaths in its math and that's how the rules got approved. Now meet Lee Zeldin, Trump's EPA administrator. In January, his agency disclosed that going forward, it will no longer put a dollar value on the lives saved by cutting soot or smog. On paper, that benefit is now zero. That means rules that would save thousands of lives suddenly look like all cost, no benefit. The government is still keeping a ledger. You just aren't on it. #PublicHealth #EPA #Information #News #FYP
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