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EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health
In the world of cost benefit analysis, if an impact isn’t monetized, it doesn’t exist. A former EPA official explains what’s changing now and why it matters.
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Trump’s EPA Proposes to Reward States for Being Bad Neighbors
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration released yet another coal industry handout by proposing to undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s previous disapproval of State Implementation Plans from states failing to meet their Clean Air Act obligations under the federal ozone air quality standard. Previously in 2023 the EPA had … [continued]
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When Steel Outlives Strategy: The Climate Cost of Germany’s Hydrogen Pipeline
Germany’s 400 km hydrogen backbone segment is now pressurized, full of fossil hydrogen, and waiting. There are no meaningful suppliers connected to it and no contracted offtakers drawing molecules out. That fact alone makes it worth slowing down and doing the accounting carefully, because large infrastructure decisions do not become … [continued]
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EPA Cooks The Books On Industrial Pollution Costs
The EPA has now decided it will no longer calculate the cost of fossil fuel pollution on human health in the US.
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California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record
Renewables peak as fossil fuel power generation reaches historic low, while transportation emissions also plummet While not on target to reach 2030 climate goals, state continues to close the gap SAN FRANCISCO — In one of California’s single largest year-over-year emissions reductions on record, the state lowered its climate pollution … [continued]
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