Add Progress, Stability to Policymaking

摘要

The Trump administration's biggest actions were often deregulatory-rescinding or modifying the prior administration's recently issued rules. These moves frequently targeted the Obama administration's flagship environmental protections, including the Clean Power Plan, the Waters of the United States Rule, and its groundbreaking vehicle fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards-all of which, according to their cost-benefit analyses, were expected to provide hundreds of millions of net monetized benefits each year. Thankfully, in some of these cases, courts blocked the Trump actions, at least in part based on the administration's shoddy reasoning for moving away from CBA-justified policies. But if the commitment to CBA and what it represents is abandoned, there will be no protection from such regulatory swings in our increasingly polarized society.