Caroline Mortimer
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Journalist. Mostly BBC. Interests mostly revolve around Taylor Swift, politics, economics, climate, social issues and the life and times of various Real Housewives…
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Reposted by Caroline Mortimer
The EPA long considered the cost to industry and the savings in avoided deaths and disease when coming up with air pollution rules. Under Trump, the agency is dropping human health out of that equation.
EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules
The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.
bloom.bg
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
The EPA long considered the cost to industry and the savings in avoided deaths and disease when coming up with air pollution rules. Under Trump, the agency is dropping human health out of that equation.
Ok, so I have been properly (have it on my phone) on BlueSky and I have yet to to be served AI slop or racism/misoygny/homopobia…which probably shouldn’t be a weird in a nice way but here I go…
January 11, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Ok, so I have been properly (have it on my phone) on BlueSky and I have yet to to be served AI slop or racism/misoygny/homopobia…which probably shouldn’t be a weird in a nice way but here I go…