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Guest Essay

By Richard L. Revesz

Mr. Revesz is a professor of law and the dean emeritus at the New York University School of Law.

The Environmental Protection Agency has established a new way to address the country’s pollution problems: Ignore them.

For several decades, the agency has used the best available science to quantify the benefits from regulations that reduce air pollution: averted deaths, hospitalizations, asthma symptoms, heart attacks and strokes, among them. The E.P.A. assigned those health benefits dollar values based on economic models and compared them with........

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