Jon Utley on How Raising EPA Limits Will Save Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars

The EPA
is raising the radiation
threat level by a factor of 350. That may sound
unbelievable but it is assuredly a good thing: The previous limits
were far lower than science justified and caused hundreds of
billions of dollars of economic loss to America and the world,
according to Jon Utley.

The trigger for the change was the government recognizing the
ramifications of two things. The first is the reality of nuclear
terrorism. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) has recently
insisted that the EPA establish
realistic limits in accordance with the latest science.
Under the old limits, a tiny “dirty bomb” explosion in an American
city would have meant evacuating hundreds of thousands of
people.

The yearly cost
of unnecessary EPA regulations is in the many hundreds of
billions of dollars, reducing wages and hurting the world’s
standard of living, writes Utley. Fortunately, the EPA is making
changes that acknowledge the shortcomings of ultra-low radiation
limits.

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