New York Times: “Trump’s EPA Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars”
RFF Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick comments on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to retool its benefit-cost analyses.
“‘If the rationale is that benefits are uncertain, well, costs are uncertain, too,’ said Alan Krupnick, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit research group. ‘Considering costs without considering benefits is like trying to cut a piece of cloth with one blade of the scissors: The cut is likely going to be inaccurate and rough.’”
