regulations on power plants, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), one of the US Environmental Protection Agency …

Mercury contamination of the Chesapeake Bay is a concern to health authorities in the region. We evaluate the economic … benefits. An estimate of percentage of consumer surplus loss is applied to the value of all fishing days in the bay to estimate … benefits are estimated using estimated exposure and epidemiological relationships, and while potentially large, are highly …

mercury that was expected as a result of the Clean Air Interstate Rule is accelerated substantially as a result of the RGGI … policy, particularly under updating. The cost of complying with SO2, NOx, and mercury rules declines similarly. We find that …

annual Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations over the period from 1997 to 2012. While there is … of OMB, monetization of benefits, scope of costs considered, behavioral economics, intergenerational benefits, and the …

with trees. Yet the possible benefits of applying genetic engineering to trees are substantial and include industrial wood …

I review two recent estimates of the costs and, in one case, benefits of federal regulation. The first is found in the … Office of Management and Budget’s 2005 report to Congress on the benefits and costs of federal regulations (OMB 2005b). OMB … estimates annual benefits in 2004 to be $70 to $277 billion and costs to be $34 to $39 billion, but these estimates omit a great …