EPA's Cost-Benefit Plan Starts Debate On Co-Benefits, Agency Discretion

EPA's preliminary rulemaking to consider changing how it weighs the costs and benefits of its rules could lead to far-reaching changes, including trimming the estimates of a rule's co-benefits, greater consideration of costs in a variety of settings and revisiting already-issued regulations. Critics are already charging that the effort could conflict with existing guidance from the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) and also appears to single out one federal agency for scrutiny over issues that require a...