Trump EPA sparks outrage after plan drops dollar value on lives saved by pollution rules

A Trump administration official lashed out Monday after leaked emails revealed the EPA plans to abandon its decades-old practice of assigning a dollar value to lives saved by pollution regulations — while continuing to calculate costs to industry. The shift, first reported by The New York Times, would make it easier to roll back limits on deadly air pollutants like fine particulate matter and ozone, a move critics say favors corporate profits over public health. EPA chief Lee Zeldin angrily denied the agency was ignoring human lives, insisting health impacts would still be considered even if not monetized, as administration allies dismissed concerns and attacked the press.

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