The Biden administration have just changed the rules about environmental assessments to include all future costs. It's a _big_ win.
I'm sure there is a better source, but this covers it https://www.brookings.edu/research/overview-and-analysis-of-...
I'm sure there is a better source, but this covers it https://www.brookings.edu/research/overview-and-analysis-of-...
> These changes undoubtedly reflect a more progressive view of regulation. Yet, they do not jettison cost-benefit analysis. Instead, they have a basis in recent academic research, and they appear to be designed with an eye toward helping agencies withstand court challenges to their cost-benefit analysis.
As I understand it, a cost benefit analyses did not factor into the recent supreme court ruling against the EPA, nor the one from last summer.