Forbes March 25, 2025
Right after Trump was elected president of the United States in 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt pledged to reexamine landmark environmental policies and repeal regulations. In their view, excessive regulations harm the US industry, and thus, reducing regulations would be suitable for businesses. On June 12, 2018, with my colleague David Cutler, a health economist at Harvard, we published a short article where we quantified and summarised the possible adverse health impacts of repealing environmental regulations. You can read the details here. For example, the EPA’s 2017 Regulatory Impact Analysis estimated that repealing the Clean Power Plants (CPP) would result in 280,000–318,000 additional short tons of SO₂ emissions and 278,000–282,000 additional short tons of NOₓ emissions...
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