EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health

PHYSorg
Jan 29, 2026, 5:27 pm82 pts
When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such as setting national air quality standards for ozone and fine particulate matter.

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