Adam Peshak at the Reason Foundation looks at how regulations based on good intentions and fuzzy math both end up burdening the economy and not helping solve the problems in the first place. 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a regulation on the books that will cost $10 billion a year and will do almost nothing to accomplish its aim of improving public health. It is merely another example of the EPA's politicization of science in a continued effort to bypass Congress to regulate greenhouse gas and eliminate coal.

The "Mercury and Air Toxics Standards" (MATS) is the first of its kind to require installing expensive equipment on over 700 power plants. It has been estimated that this, and other related regulations, will shut down nearly ten percent of coal generating electricity in the country. This could be considered worth the cost if the regulation produced a significant impact on public health.

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