Every year the Clean Air Act prevents hundreds of thousands of premature deaths. To document the benefits gained from reducing harmful air pollution like soot and ozone, the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding approach has been to assign a dollar value to those benefits. This allows those benefits to be compared to polluter compliance costs—a comparison that consistently shows that health benefits far exceed the cost of pollution reductions. EPA’s recent announcement that it will no l

A new charge to drive into the centre of Birmingham is being considered by the city council. Drivers of older, more polluting, vehicles will be targeted in a new clean air zone. | BBC Birmingham