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Mercury madness.(ECONOMICS AND REGULATION)(Brief Article)
Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn, "Thinking Through Mercury Regulation: Some Lessons for the Design of Environmental Policy," AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, March 2005 (aei-brookings.org)
The Environmental Protection Agency has come under fire from the Government Accountability Office for not including an assessment of the benefits to human health from the reduction in consumption of methyl mercury in fish following the adoption of its proposed rule on mercury emissions. Economists Ted Gayer and Robert Hahn sought to quantify those benefits and draw lessons for environmental policy from the exercise.
Gayer and Hahn found that the health benefits don't justify the EPA's proposed restrictions. Methyl mercury is said to affect the neurological development of children born to women who eat too much fish while pregnant, so Gayer and Hahn examined the scientific literature to assess the effect of lower mercury levels on ...
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