Benefits of limiting toxins obviously outweigh cost -- except at Trump's EPA
When they thought no one was looking on the Friday before the New Year, Trump's EPA decided to cheat the American public in favor of polluters, by exaggerating the price tag of environmental regulations while minimizing their benefit.
In rolling back the tight Mercury and Air Toxics Standards finalized under President Obama, the Trump administration created a fundamental shift in the federal regulatory framework as it seeks to undo each building block of environmental regulation developed over EPA’s 49-year history.
This move would only consider countervailing risks while disregarding the full benefits of adopting pollution controls, especially in considering ancillary or “co-benefits.” Co-benefits are the indirect benefits of a rule, or the added gains that EPA’s rule was not designed to create.
Numerous Obama administration rules relied on reductions of other pollutants, calculated as co-benefits, even when those emissions weren't being regulated. This previous, relatively uncontroversial corner of federal regulatory cost-benefit analysis has now been targeted by industry.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/423983-benefits-of-limiting-toxins-obviously-outweigh-cost-except-at
I think we should dump some toxic chemicals on Mar A Lago since Trumpy likes them so much.
