FOCUS | EPA Cuts Value of a Human Life
http://www.truthout.org/article/cosmic-markdown-epa-says-life-is-worth-less
David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post: "Someplace else, people might tell you that human life is priceless. In Washington, the federal government has appraised it like a '96 Camaro with bad brakes. Last week, it was revealed that an Environmental Protection Agency office had lowered its official estimate of life's value, from about $8.04 million to about $7.22 million. That decision has put a spotlight on the concept of the 'Value of a Statistical Life,' in which the Washington bureaucracy takes on a question usually left to preachers and poets."