EPA Crafting New Way to Tally Health Benefit Costs, Zeldin Says

The EPA is developing a more precise way of putting a price tag on its rules’ health benefits, agency head Lee Zeldin told congressional appropriators on Wednesday.

His comments came in reference to a January rulemaking in which the Environmental Protection Agency said it is “no longer monetizing benefits from PM2.5 and ozone,” referring to fine particulate matter.

“As we update the modeling, working with our dedicated career scientists at EPA, rather than setting an arbitrary number to it, we look forward to being able to put a number to it that has the support of the science advisory board ...