Submitted by Cry Wolf Project on March 1, 2011 - 6:00pm
Date Published:
Tue, 03/01/2011
Environmental Protection Agency. March 2011.
The results of this analysis of the costs and benefits of the Clean Air Act are stunning. “Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act: Second Prospective Study—1990-2020” claims that by 2020, benefits are estimated to fall in the $2 trillion range, with costs amounting to a mere $65 billion. The vast majority of the benefits will be seen in the lives saved by the law, which amount to an estimated 230,000 prevented early deaths.
