Reforming regulatory impact analysis
By: editors, Winston Harrington, Lisa Heinzerling, and Richard D. Morgenstern
Contributors: Resources for the Future
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781933115757
Subjects: Environmental economics; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental policy
Description: The requirement that federal agencies prepare economic studies--regulatory impact analyses (RIA)--for major new environmental and other social regulations has been controversial since its implementation almost thirty years ago. In a new RFF report, experts with differing perspectives take a hard look at several recent RIAs issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and explore what reforms would benefit the current system. The publication grew out of a series of workshops drawing upon views from government officials, legal scholars, and academic experts.
Notes: "April 2009."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Controversies surrounding regulatory impact analysis  -- Winston Harrington, Lisa Heinzerling, and Richard D. Morgenstern; title: The Clean Air Interstate rule  -- Richard D. Morgenstern; title: The technocratic and democratic functions of the CAIR regulatory analysis  -- Nathaniel O. Keohane; title: The CAIR RIA : advocacy dressed up as policy analysis  -- Wendy E. Wagner; title: The clean air mercury rule  -- David A. Evans; title: The mathematics of mercury  -- Catherine A. O'Neil; title: The CAMR : an economist's perspective  -- Alan J. Krupnick; title: The cooling water intake structures rule  -- Winston Harrington; title: Improving the CWIS rule regulatory analysis : what does an economist want?  -- Scott Farrow; title: Fish tales  -- Douglas A. Kysar; title: What we learned -- Winston Harrington, Lisa Heinzerling, and Richard D. Morgenstern.