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EPA Will No Longer Consider Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business (truthout.org)
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"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps."

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[–] 3 points 13 hours ago

Those costs can be passed onto governments. Much like salary subsidies in the form of food stamps.

The corporate world is doing a PE style takeover of government, and non-workers are simply an externality.

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