When the EPA evaluates changes in in environmental rules, it weighs the financial cost against gains in human life and health.
The lower the value of human life and health, the easier it is to justify pollution.
Last week the Trump administration decided to de-emphasize the life and health benefits related to regulating mercury emissions in coal-burning power plants. That will make it easier to approve coal-burning plants.
You can’t keep up. So many bad things. So often. It overwhelms. We must vote this November to at least make a start to fixing this. We must.
To read the whole story on this policy change. see Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman, “E.P.A Aims to Revalue Human Health in Its Review of Mercury Rules,” New York Times, (Sept. 10, 2018), p. A 15.
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