The Environmental Protection Agency is ending a decades-old practice of assigning a value to human life when reviewing the effects of certain air pollutants, a report alleges.
The agency, led by President Donald Trump appointee Lee Zeldin, will continue to document the costs businesses incur in complying with regulations, but not the value of lives saved by those regulations, according to internal emails leaked to The New York Times.
Such a reversal has been described as a “seismic shift” that is antithetical to the agency’s mission statement, which prioritizes human health and the environment.
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