CEI Presses Trump EPA To Stop Counting Some 'Co-Benefits' Of Air Rules

The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is pressing the Trump administration to drop the Obama-era practice of justifying major air rules by counting all the "co-benefits" of reducing pollutants not specifically targeted by the rules -- and is also suggesting that a stricter adherence to Clean Air Act deadlines would avoid excessively strict EPA rules. Among several ideas that CEI is floating for the new administration is the revival of an argument raised by several of the agency's conservative critics...