(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 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 ...