Study: Environmental Protection Saves Economy 5-10x Its Cost

Environmental regulations prevent approximately 200,000 premature deaths, 100 million asthma attacks, and 1 million cases of low birth weight in infants annually.

For decades, environmental regulation has been cast as a burden on economic growth — a necessary sacrifice, perhaps, but a sacrifice nonetheless. Researchers at Penn State have now placed that assumption under scrutiny and found it wanting. Their analysis, published in Nature Water, reveals that the protections enforced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency return five to ten dollars in economic value for every dollar spent on compliance, preventing hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of health crises each year at a cost representing a fraction of a fraction of national output.

Study: Environmental Protection Saves Economy 5-10x Its Cost

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