According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the total costs created by the Clean Air Act between 1970 and 1990 were about $500 billion. Their midrange estimate of the value of benefits from the Clean Air Act for the same time period was about:
a. half that amount.
b. two-thirds of that amount.
c. more than 40 times higher.
d. almost 10 times higher.
c. more than 40 times higher.
A study by the Environmental Protection Agency looked at the costs and benefits of the Clean Air Act from 1970 to 1990. It found that total costs over that time period were roughly $500 billion—a huge amount. However, it also found that a middle-range estimate of the health and other benefits from cleaner air was $22 trillion—about 44 times higher than the costs.
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