EPA is ramping up its effort to develop agency-wide guidelines for how to incorporate equity considerations into its regulatory impact analysis amid a growing public debate about the issue and suggestions from former White House regulatory chief John Graham for an "equity test" to evaluate the adverse impacts of rules on the poor.rnKelly Maguire, an economist with EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, told a recent forum on regulating risk that in the last six months the agency has "turned up the heat" in trying to find ways to consider equity in regulatory impact analysis for EPA-wide guidance. "One of the issues is that we don't have consistent ways in which we might do this and those tools for doing equity analysis aren't as well developed as we have for benefit-cost analysis," she told the audience.
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