Wheeler Hearing Provides Opportunity to Learn More about 'Benefits-Busting' Rule

Center for Progressive Reform 2019-01-15

Summary:

During his tenure, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt launched multiple assaults on environmental and public health safeguards. His attacks on clean air standards and water quality regulations made so little sense in our reality that he went to the absurd and extreme lengths of creating an alternative reality to make them look legitimate. That alternative reality is rendered in the "benefits-busting" rule, which would systematically distort the analyses EPA economists conduct to assess the economic impacts of the agency's pending rulemakings. With Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler's Senate confirmation hearing scheduled for January 16, lawmakers will have the opportunity to learn more about this dangerous rulemaking - and hopefully call upon Wheeler to abandon it altogether.

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http://www.progressivereform.org/CPRBlog.cfm?idBlog=363EF18E-BA87-04DD-2D16005E379FEFD2

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Authors:

James Goodwin

Date tagged:

01/15/2019, 15:59

Date published:

01/15/2019, 10:55