In January 2001, the last day of the term of President Bill Clinton, the U.S. Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) reduced the maximum allowable level of arsenic in drinking water from 50 to 10 parts per billion (ppb). Incoming President Bush quickly halted new standard arsenic and other "last minute" Clinton rules, to allow time for consideration. In October 2001, after nine months of research, Bush administrator EPA, Christine Whitman had to decide that the arsenic standard should be. This case is designed for use in graduate school in applied microeconomics to illustrate the problems in setting environmental standards, including the problem of quantifying the benefits and opportunities of local rather than national standards. HKS Case Number 1680.0 "Hide
on Merylin Averill, Jose Gomez-Ibanez 15 pages. Publication Date: January 22, 2003. Prod. #: HKS081-PDF-ENG
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