(RNS) — An image helped me see. Fuzzy, tiny, black and white, the picture flickered across the screen of an old television, atop a cart set at the front of the church sanctuary where I was sitting.

If asked to put a dollar amount on a loved one’s life, it’s priceless. Up until last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated a monetary value of $11 to $13 million to human life in ...

Ohio began enforcement of its distracted-driving law in October 2023. It didn’t take long for the measure to have a significant impact in the Buckeye State. By October 2024, a report by the Columbus ...

The Trump administration has been accused of placing “zero value on human life” after the Environmental Protection Agency stopped calculating how much money is saved in health care costs avoided and ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules. Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. A Californian’s life was worth $100 million to certain investor-owned utilities. That is ...