BUI - New EPA rule makes it harder to toughen air pollution standards

The Trump administration has moved to make it harder to justify stricter air pollution limits in future federal environmental rules, which it hopes will protect the private sector from aggressive regulation by the Biden administration.The final rule makes changes to the Environmental Protection Agency's methods for calculating costs and economic benefits in a way that could make more proposals seem like they would do more damage than good.In particular, the more narrow cost-benefit analysis dictated by the EPA rule could limit the agency's ability to cap emissions from power plants and methane leaks at oil wells.The EPA will be required to make decisions about air regulations based on a narrow look at their potential costs and benefits, focusing squarely on effects directly tied to specific pollutants targeted by rules and not any additional environmental improvements.Critics say the approach is shortsighted and will force the EPA to arbitrarily ignore the full

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New EPA rule makes it harder to toughen air pollution standards