The Progressive Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis (But Not As Conducted in the Trump Administration)
My review of Reviving Rationality:Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health by Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz.
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Vaccine-Related Heart Inflammation Risks for Young People Much Lower Than COVID-19 Heart Inflammation Risks
Young males infected with COVID-19 are six times more likely to develop myocarditis than those who have been vaccinated.
Biden Administration To Donate 500 Million Doses of Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 Vaccine to Poor Countries
Epidemics anywhere threaten immunization efforts everywhere, including here at home.
Environmental Protection Agency
Activists Decry Effort to Bring Economic Rationality to Clean Air Regulation
"A standard demanding the return of the Stone Age would not prove 'requisite to protect the public health.'"
Countering the Threat of the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
Are smart Roombas booby-trapped with bombs in our future?
The Social Cost of Carbon and Congress: New at Reason
Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars
New Proposed Nevada Solar Power Plant Would Cost Six Times More Than the Hoover Dam
While supposedly delivering about the same amount of electricity.
Ridiculous Rules For Swordfish, Ceiling Fans, Grain Barges Help Make 2016 The Most Highly Regulated Year In History
Registry of federal regulations surpasses 50,000 pages, on pace to break annual record.
"Hi, I'm President Obama and I'm here in Alaska to help fix the climate."
Will government solutions to global warming be worse than global warming?
Environmental Protection Agency
In Mercury Case, Supreme Court Rules That the EPA Must Take Costs and Benefits Into Account
No regulation is "appropriate" if it does significantly more harm than good, argues majority opinion.
The Government's Ten Thousand Commandments Cost $1.88 Trillion Per Year
Regulations now cost your family nearly $15,000 annually.
College Students Increasingly Illegally Downloading Textbooks for Free
Who could blame them?
Diplomas vs. Dirty Jobs
TV host Mike Rowe on the educational bias against unglamorous, good-paying work
Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Renewable Energy Technology
Model T energy tech is no way to address climate change.
How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?
Not very. You are four times more likely to be killed by a lightning bolt than by a terror attack.