“But EPA claims the rule will save lives while only costing $45.7 million per year. EPA also argues that forcing people to ditch their wood stoves will result in 360 to 810 fewer death per year”
Thats 56 thousand per life.
So to save all 300 million lives would cost us 16 trillion, 800 billion.
Lives are not being saved,perhaps they are being extended.
***“But EPA claims the rule will save lives while only costing $45.7 million per year. ***
And how many people die from breathing the smoke of forest fires in California and the Rockies?
How many die when OUR forest service has a controlled burn and the smoke covers three or four counties?
What about when I burn a pile of brush?
Regulators must regulate, and when there is nothing to regulate they make up something to regulate.