{"id":411450,"date":"2026-01-16T19:24:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:24:41","slug":"sorry-the-epa-no-longer-cares-about-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411450\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, the EPA No Longer Cares About Your Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Environmental Protection Agency has committed itself<\/a> to protecting corporate profits. Human beings, eh, not so much. From The New York Times: <\/p>\n

Under President Trump, the EPA plans to stop tallying gains from the health benefits caused by curbing two of the most widespread deadly air pollutants, fine particulate matter and ozone, when regulating industry, according to internal agency emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times. It\u2019s a seismic shift that runs counter to the EPA\u2019s mission statement, which says the agency\u2019s core responsibility is to protect human health and the environment, environmental law experts said. The change could make it easier to repeal limits on these pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country, the emails and documents show. That would most likely lower costs for companies while resulting in dirtier air.<\/p>\n

Well, that certainly sounds like a win-win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea that EPA would not consider the public health benefits of its regulations is anathema to the very mission of EPA,\u201d said Richard Revesz, the faculty director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. \u201cIf you\u2019re only considering the costs to industry and you\u2019re ignoring the benefits, then you can\u2019t justify any regulations that protect public health, which is the very reason that EPA was set up,\u201d said Mr. Revesz, who led the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President Joseph R. Biden Jr.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re really being serious about not protecting the environment over at the EPA.<\/p>\n

A version of the language already appeared in a regulatory impact analysis posted online on Monday. The document accompanied a final rule that would weaken limits on nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions from combustion turbines used at gas-burning power plants. The head of the EPA\u2019s air and radiation office, Aaron Szabo, said at his Senate confirmation hearing that he had a personal stake in clean-air rules because he suffers from cystic fibrosis. \u201cBecause of my lung disease, I have always been acutely aware of air quality,\u201d he said. Mr. Szabo is a former registered lobbyist for the oil and chemical industries. His clients at the firm CGCN Group included the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade association for oil refiners that has opposed stricter PM2.5 standards.<\/p>\n

Acute awareness ain\u2019t what it used to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Environmental Protection Agency has committed itself to protecting corporate profits. Human beings, eh, not so much. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[872,197370,874,192,873,79,197368,197369],"class_list":["post-411450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f87786c8-087c-45be-92b0-aaa53235ef2e","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-environment","tag-locale-us","tag-science","tag-shorttitle-sorry","tag-the-epa-no-longer-cares-about-your-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}