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Environment
fromHigh Country News
16 hours ago

The essentials of democracy - High Country News

Environmental protections are being dismantled through regulatory actions without public input, while climate change impacts devastate agricultural communities dependent on water resources.
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
2 weeks ago

EPA ends credits for automatic start-stop vehicle ignition, a feature Zeldin says everyone hates'

The Environmental Protection Agency announced an end Thursday to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce emissions that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said everyone hates. In remarks with President Donald Trump on Thursday at the White House, Zeldin called start-stop technology the Obama switch and said it makes vehicles die at every red light and stop sign. He said the credits, which also applied to options like improved air conditioning systems, are now over, done, finished.
Environment
US news
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago

EPA ends credits for automatic start-stop vehicle ignition, a feature Zeldin says 'everyone hates'

EPA ended credits for automakers installing automatic start-stop ignition systems, eliminating incentives for the fuel-saving technology while officials criticized the systems.
Environment
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The EPA will no longer calculate the lives saved thanks to air pollution restrictions

EPA will stop monetizing health impacts in air-pollution cost-benefit analyses and instead prioritize assessing compliance costs to industry for PM2.5 and ozone rules.
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Environment
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Trump's EPA Chief Chews Out NY Times After Email Leak Reveals Plan to Abandon Decades-Old Policy: Cute BS Headline'

EPA intends to stop using value-of-statistical-life calculations for pollution rules while continuing to count industry compliance costs.
Environment
fromTruthout
1 month ago

EPA Will No Longer Consider Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business

The EPA will stop monetizing mortality and health benefits from PM2.5 and ozone, excluding those benefits from cost-benefit regulatory analyses.
Environment
fromFast Company
5 months ago

Trump administration moves to stop requiring polluters to report emissions

The EPA plans to end mandatory greenhouse gas reporting for over 8,000 industrial facilities, eliminating emissions tracking and reducing regulatory costs.
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