EPA Moves To Scrap Controversial Cost-Benefit Rule For Air Act Program

The Biden EPA is moving toward formally scrapping the Trump EPA’s rewrite of cost-benefit analysis processes under the Clean Air Act, though some environmentalists have also urged the new administration to use its review of the measure to codify new procedures enabling stronger rules. An EPA spokeswoman says the agency April 8 sent a draft interim final rule, “Rescinding the Rule on Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Benefits and Costs in the Clean Air Act Rulemaking Process,” to the...