- Preventing asthma attacks, cancer, and drinking water contamination not only improves people’s lives, but also helps families avoid costly hospital bills and avoid missed school days and work days.
- EPA investments in communities across the country put people to work replacing lead pipes, cleaning up Superfund sites, revitalizing Brownfield sites, and ensuring America’s water systems are safe, up-to-date, and more resilient to disasters.
- These investments support good-paying jobs, reduce toxic emissions and climate pollution, lower energy costs, and save families money.
- An interactive map of EPA investments under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is here. A full report with regional examples is available here.
- A report issued by President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget in 2019 estimated the range of annual benefits of EPA to be between three and twelve times greater than the costs to regulated industry.
- The EPA’s air pollution rules established over the past three years will deliver $250 billion in net annual benefits. Put together, the public health and climate benefits of the clean air standards alone will exceed compliance costs by trillions of dollars through 2050.
