The Environmental Protection Agency wants to stop calculating the dollar value of the health benefits of its air pollution regulations while still including costs to industry. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations.  Instead, the agency will consider the effects of regulations without attaching a price tag to human life.  In particular, the EPA is changing how it conducts the cost-benefit a...

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