Focuses on the ruling of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the costs and health benefit analysis of the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. Report published by EPA about the issue; Plans of the Washington Legal Foundation to sue EPA if it does not produce a cost-...
Notably, EPA's monetized cost-benefit analysis shows that the estimated monetized compliance costs far outweigh the estimated monetized benefits. At EPA's preferred 2% discount rate, EPA's monetized cost estimates indicate health benefits of $300 million, climate benefits of $130 millio...
Benefit-cost analysis : a political economy approach Several recent studies have criticized the aggregation function of the EPA WQI, arguing that it suffers from "eclipsing" and other problems. Although past ... Schmid,A Allan - Westview 被引量: 56发表: 2016年 Water quality indices and benefit...
Gowdy, in turn, recommended that EPA research and policies should incorporate these findings by exploring the use of citizen juries and community-valuation workshops to add subjective measures of well being to cost-benefit analysis. Should this valuation research find evidence of the features of ...
This is at least the second time the proposal has been criticized this month.Economists criticizedthe cost-benefit analysis used by the EPA to justify the changes in the rule, saying the flawed analysis essentially zeros out “co-benefits,” including the other toxins that would be re...
Wheeler told reporters that the cost-benefit analysis is “unique” to this particular rule, but that the agency is working on a broader cost-benefit rule for all Clean Air Act regulations. He also pledged to defend the MATS standard in court, saying “we defend all of our rulemakings.”...
Cost-Benefit Analysis EPA estimates that the proposal will result in 46 – 49 GW of additional coal-fired EGU retirements by 2020 with a corresponding decrease in coal production by 25 percent - 27 percent and a 16 percent - 18 percent decrease in coal prices...
Finally, while we have demonstrated that the School Bus Rebate Program is effective at improving district attendance rates in the year after the lottery, we have not performed any formal economic cost–benefit analyses of the programme nor evaluated the sustained benefits of this programme over time...
The Environmental Protection Agency's final cost and benefit analysis for its Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, expected next month, could open the door for new challenges to the agency's practice of including reductions in pollutants th... P Ambrosio,A Childers - 《Environment Reporter》 被引量...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has asked a federal appeals court to hold in abeyance litigation over changes it made to the cost-benefit analysis of the mercury and air toxics standards for coal-fired power plants, signaling it may change the analysis. The agency filed an unoppose...