The EPA Just Declared Your Life Too Expensive
How the federal government rewrote pollution rules to stop counting human lives
On January 11, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency quietly announced a new framework for crafting future air pollution regulations. Going forward, the EPA will no longer consider the number of lives saved or the health care costs avoided when setting limits on key air pollutants, such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ground-level ozone. Inst…
