Today on National Review Online, ACSH s Jeff Stier collaborates with Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to analyze the efficacy of the EPA in light of their recent request for a 37% budget increase for greater regulatory efforts: The EPA s public-health mission is misleading, because it is charged with addressing risks that are too small to measure or be regulated away. The agency s current risk-assessment practices compound the problem, harming both public health and our economic wellbeing. The agency issues extremely high benefit estimates for its regulations. But these estimates are out of touch with reality.
The article recounts several recent attempts by the EPA to address environmental and health concerns that merely resulted in the realization that expanded regulation is an impractical solution. There is only so much money to be applied to these issues, says Stier, and it should be used wisely.
