U.S. EPA proposes changes to how clean air rules are written
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released on Thursday a proposed overhaul of how major clean air rules are written by changing the cost-benefit analysis process, a move that would affect the stringency of future regulations.
The new proposed cost-benefit analysis would focus on weighing only the economic impact of a proposed rule without taking into account possible benefits such as public health to justify expanding regulations, as has previously been done, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said on Thursday.
Wheeler said the agency would calculate “co-benefits” separately and publish it for the public, but that calculation cannot be used to underpin the rule.
The proposal aims to correct what Wheeler described in a statement as a “dishonest accounting method the previous administration used to justify costly, ineffective regulations.”
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The new proposed cost-benefit analysis would focus on weighing only the economic impact of a proposed rule without taking into account possible benefits such as public health to justify expanding regulations, as has previously been done, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said on Thursday.
Wheeler said the agency would calculate “co-benefits” separately and publish it for the public, but that calculation cannot be used to underpin the rule.
The proposal aims to correct what Wheeler described in a statement as a “dishonest accounting method the previous administration used to justify costly, ineffective regulations.”
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