Middletown power plant as seen from the Air Line Trail in Portland. Photo by John Hall

A recent New York Times article by Maxine Joselow reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to consider only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, not the monetary value of avoiding illness and saving human lives. The pollutants affected are fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone which are signifcant health hazards in the lower CT River Valley. A PDF copy of the full article may be found here.