Costs for changing pollution criteria in Florida waters likely to exceed EPA estimates
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 11:30
in Mathematics & Economics
The costs to switch to numeric criteria for limiting nutrient pollutants in Florida waters are expected to exceed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates, says a new National Research Council report. The committee that wrote the report questioned the validity of several assumptions in the EPA cost analysis and found that EPA did not adequately report on the uncertainties that could affect the cost of the rule change.