Clean Air Act of 1990 Evidence
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.
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02/01/2011
Southern Environmental Law Center. February 2011.
This fact sheet explores four environmental policy fights from the last four years and shows us what industry said about the bill in question, from the Clean Air Act of 1990 to the Ozone Standards of 1997. They chase these quotes with facts about what actually happened.
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10/01/2010
Pew Environmental Group. October 2010.
“Industry Opposition to Government Regulation” provides a nice chart comparing the real price tags of environmental, safety, and health regulations to industry’s original estimation of their costs. Very clear, very succinct.
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05/19/2009
Environmental Defense Fund. May 19, 2009.
“Air quality measures consistently cost less than predicted”, clearly shows, in pie graph form, how wildly exaggerated industry predictions of clean air costs are.
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01/01/2009
Environmental Defense Fund. 2009.
"There They Go Again: The Sky is Falling Attacks on Healthier Air" showcases industry and media cost and joblessness exaggerations relating to cleaner air policy.
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02/01/2004
Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc. Public Citizen. February 2004.
“Not Too Costly, After All” shows that regulators regularly overestimate the costs of their own regulations. “Regulatory agencies often overestimate the cost of regulatory compliance, sometimes substantially. There are dozens of examples of costs being inflated and the potential for innovation and productivity-enhancing activities ignored.”
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06/01/2000
Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer, and Jhih-Shyang Shih. Resources for the Future. June 2000.
“Jobs vs. The Environment: An Industry-Level Study” spotlights four industries that operate under intense environmental regulations: plastics, paper, steel, and petroleum. The authors find that “increased environmental spending generally does not cause a significant change in industry level employment.”
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11/15/1999
Environmental Protection Agency. November 15, 1999.
The EPA’s takes a look ahead from to the “Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act - 1990 to 2010” and finds “that the monetizable benefits [from the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990] alone exceeded the direct compliance costs by four to one.”
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11/01/1997
Eban Goodstein and Hart Hodges. The American Prospect. November 1, 1997.
This impressively comprehensive report, "Behind the Numbers: Polluted Data," exposes the over-exaggerated price estimates of academics, business groups, and even regulatory agencies themselves.
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