EPA says it will stop calculating health care savings from key air pollution rules

The Environmental Protection Agency says it will stop calculating the economic savings of health benefits from air pollution rules. The change means the agency will focuses only on industry costs. It aligns with President Donald Trump's business-friendly approach. On Monday, the agency stated it remains committed to health protection but won't monetize impacts now. Environmental and public health advocates called the agency’s action a dangerous abdication of one of its core missions. Since the EPA’s creation more than 50 years ago, Republican and Democratic administrations have used different estimates to assign monetary value to a human life in cost-benefit analyses.