OSHA Vinyl Chloride Standard Evidence
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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07/01/2005
OMB Watch. July 2005.
OMB Watch compiled this useful chart of the predicted costs of various federal regulations, including OSHA standards, and the actual costs (“The Going-Out-of-Business Myth”). It includes an “Ex Ante” and an “Ex Post” column. Very good for a quick look at the industry’s history of exaggeration.
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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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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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