The EPA might change the way it weighs human health against industry profit
Story Date: 6/19/2018

 

Source: Jennifer Lu, POPULAR SCIENCE, 6/15/18


The public has until July 13 to comment on how the Environmental Protection Agency balances its checkbooks to decide how regulations that protect public health stack up against industry costs, a process known as cost-benefit analysis.
Industry groups have long complained about cost-benefit analyses, which agency administrator Scott Pruitt referred to in a June 7 EPA call for comments in advance of proposed changes to the accounting process.

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