Posted by Jonathan Adler: Heinzerling to Head EPA's Policy & Economics Shop: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_07_19-2009_07_25.shtml#1248274256
Georgetown University law professor [1]Lisa Heinzerling, who had been serving as a climate policy advisor to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, has been named Associate Administrator for the [2]Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. This is an interesting development. OPEI includes EPA's [3]National Center for Environmental Economics, and Heinzerling has been an outspoken critic of cost-benefit analysis. In [4]her view, cost-benefit analysis "is at odds with fundamental premises of environmentalism." It's also interesting because her views of cost-benefit are at odds with incoming OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein. Sunstein (whose nomination is [5]stalled for other reasons) has been a cost-benefit proponent. References 1. http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/Heinzerling/ 2. http://www.epa.gov/opei/ 3. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/homepage 4. http://www.grist.org/article/cost-benefit-environmentalism-an-oxymoron/ 5. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/21/obama-regulatory-czars-confirmation-held-hunting-rights-proponent/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
