Improving Regulatory Science: A Case Study of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards

Susan E. Dudley and Marcus Peacock

Supreme Court Economic Review, 2016, vol. 24, issue 1, 49 - 99

Abstract: This paper explores the motivations and institutional incentives of participants involved in the development of regulation aimed at reducing health risks, with a goal of understanding and identifying solutions to what the Bipartisan Policy Center has characterized as "a tendency to frame regulatory issues as debates solely about science, regardless of the actual subject in dispute, [that] is at the root of the stalemate and acrimony all too present in the regulatory system today." We focus our analysis with a case study of the procedures for developing National Ambient Air Quality Standards under the Clean Air Act, and attempt to identify procedural approaches that bring greater diversity (in data, expertise, experience, and accountability) into the decision process.

Date: 2016
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