STUDIES SHOW COST-EFFECTIVENESS PLAN COULD LIMIT STRICT EPA RULES

As scientists prepare to release a report the White House sought to implement a controversial approach for assessing the costs of EPA and other agencies' rules, two new documents suggest that if the agency were to adopt the so-called cost-effectiveness approach, it may not be able to cite a slew of regulatory benefits the agency currently uses to justify stringent regulations. The documents -- an EPA economic research strategy and a case study of EPA's non-road diesel rule developed by...