In Focus: The Importance of Robust Benefit-Cost Analysis

Alan Krupnick

Date

Jan. 30, 2026

Guest

Alan Krupnick

Producer

Annie M. Tastet

Image

Jon Hicks / Stone via Getty Images

Earlier this month, the US Environmental Protection Agency decided to stop quantifying the human health benefits of regulation in its regulatory impact analyses. While bureaucratic, these analyses help ensure that regulations provide net benefits to the American public. In this In Focus video, Senior Fellow Alan Krupnick comments on the agency’s recent decision and the value of comprehensive benefit-cost analyses to regulatory decisionmaking.

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