SAB Investigates Rule ‘Co-Benefits’ As EPA Eyes Cost Analysis Overhaul

EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) is seeking to investigate the agency’s valuation of “co-benefits” in its Clean Air Act rules and is planning a new report on the topic, just as EPA overhauls its approach to cost-benefit analysis for rules to downplay its prior emphasis on co-benefit pollution reductions to help justify the cost of regulations. In a document recently posted to SAB’s website , board members propose to approve a two-year project to evaluate the “scientific” aspects of EPA’s...