{"id":3276,"date":"2012-02-22T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2012-03-01T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T21:39:35","slug":"credible-sources-agree-epa%e2%80%99s-rules-will-have-modest-economic-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2012\/02\/22\/credible-sources-agree-epa%e2%80%99s-rules-will-have-modest-economic-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Credible Sources Agree:  EPA\u2019s Rules will have Modest Economic Impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve posted so many stories like this that sometimes it\u2019s hard to keep count, but here is yet another slew of reputable sources finding the EPA rules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/toxics-other-epa-rules-economic-effect\/\">will not destroy the economy<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, it may just be the boost it needs.\u00a0 The Director of Regulatory Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute just wrote a piece that sums it up nicely.\u00a0 Here are some facts he rounded up on the air toxics rule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic Policy Institute (EPI)- forecast to have a modest, positive net impact on overall employment\u2014likely leading to the creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/ib325-epa-toxics-rule-job-creation\/\">84,500 to 117,000 jobs<\/a> between now and 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Congressional Research Service (CRS)- The benefits are also large, according to EPA, ranging from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/files\/2012\/MATS-CRS-Jan.pdf\">$37 billion to $90 billion<\/a> annually.\u00a0 The benefits mostly reflect the monetized value of avoiding up to 11,000 premature deaths annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Congressional Budget Office (CBO)- \u201cOn balance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/124xx\/doc12437\/11-15-Outlook_Stimulus_Testimony.pdf\">CBO<\/a> expects that delaying or eliminating those [EPA air] regulations regarding emissions would\u00a0reduce\u00a0investment and output during the next few years.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/toxics-other-epa-rules-economic-effect\/\">http:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/toxics-other-epa-rules-economic-effect\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve posted so many stories like this that sometimes it\u2019s hard to keep count, but here is yet another slew of reputable sources finding the EPA rules will not destroy the economy.\u00a0 In fact, it may just be the boost it needs.\u00a0 The Director of Regulatory Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute just wrote &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,108,43,202,20,99],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-air-act","category-climate-change-legislation","category-economics","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-news","category-links-and-quotes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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