For years, the Obama and Biden administrations have relied on the social cost of carbon in shaping energy policy. They ...

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If you’re wondering what legal scholar and former “regulatory czar” Cass Sunstein thinks about cost-benefit analysis, look no further than the bold-type teaser on the back of his new book, The ...

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The Trump administration will soon rewrite the factors it uses to determine the health risks of air pollution, a move critics warn will make it harder to place limits on emissions. Environmental ...

Shouldn’t Environmental Protection Agency regulations do more good than harm? The agency hasn’t always thought so. In 2012, under President Barack Obama, the EPA finalized a rule to reduce emissions ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines an area of cost-benefit methodology which has come under increasing philosophical scrutiny in recent years: the ...

Conservatives support cost-benefit analysis when it slows progressive regulation but abandon it when it stands in the way of their deregulatory agenda. For the past 40 years, the process by which the ...

On his very first day in office President Joe Biden issued a memorandum directing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make “recommendations for improving and modernizing regulatory review.” ...