In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

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    US E.P.A. to start considering the impact on poor billionaires bank accounts when setting any rules at all to ensure they receive a fair treatment

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      It’s even worse. Rather than comparing value, this is rating human life as categorically worthless for federal purposes.

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        Exactly. The only thing that matters is the profit, not human life, or health, or the natural world upon which we depend

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    Its not even a economic argument. Lives saved (and disease avoided) means more customers for companies.