Issue a rule on consistent and transparent consideration of costs at OAR

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“Issue a rule to ensure consistent and transparent consideration of costs.”

What has happened

Aug 27, 2026 Not started

No rule on the consideration of costs has been proposed or finalized. EPA has reconsidered dozens of individual air rules and rewritten their cost cases one at a time, but the cross-cutting procedural rule the Quote asks for — one that fixes how costs are counted in every Clean Air Act rulemaking — does not appear in the Federal Register in this window.

No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Negative search (2026-08-27): the EPA final rules, proposed rules and notices we keep and search (878 rules and proposals, 593 notices) contain no document matching benefit-cost, cost-benefit, economic analysis or regulatory impact in its title; the Federal Register full-text search returns no EPA rulemaking on benefit-cost procedures in the window.
The rule the Quote is asking for existed once: EPA finalized benefit-cost analysis procedures for Clean Air Act rulemakings in December 2020 and the Biden EPA rescinded them in 2021. Both are outside the evidence window.
The social cost of carbon half of the same problem is #1060 and #1158.
EPA’s full regulatory agenda, read 2026-09-01. The full EPA Unified Agenda was read on reginfo.gov (214 entries across the active, long-term and completed stages), because the Federal Register prints only the entries that need a Regulatory Flexibility analysis and the 2026-08-27 negative search was taken from that abbreviated version. No entry anywhere in the 214 names cost consideration, and no RIN belongs to a cross-cutting air-office cost rule. The negative now reaches the agenda as well as the Federal Register.