EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health

EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health

Janet McCabe, Indiana University When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such as setting national air quality standards for ozone and fine particulate matter. For each rule, we considered the costs to industry if the rule went into effect – and also the benefits to peop…