Air Pollution Economic Impact Model Lacks Clarity: EPA Advisers

摘要

The EPA's model for evaluating the broad economic costs and benefits of air pollution regulations isn't clear enough to help the general public, members of the agency's Science Advisory Board said Aug. 29. The analysis is intended to help utilities, industries, and the Environmental Protection Agency's policymakers determine the effects of federal regulations on factors like energy prices and employment. A recent court decision in Murray Energy Corp. v. EPA gave the agency latitude to carry out cost-benefit reviews as it and its advisers deem appropriate.