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Retrospective Study - Study Review
The retrospective study was designed and developed over a six year period, and received the most in-depth and extensive outside peer review ever completed for an EPA Report to Congress. This outside peer review, conducted on an ongoing basis throughout the full six-year period of study design and implementation, was provided by the Science Advisory Board (SAB) Council on Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis (Council), an independent panel of distinguished economists, scientists and public health experts chaired by Dr. Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a former member of the Council of Economic Advisors under former President George Bush. In a July 8, 1997 letter to EPA concluding its review of the retrospective study, the SAB Council summarized its findings as follows: "The Council finds that the Retrospective Study Report to Congress by the Agency is a serious, careful study and employs sound methods along with the best data available. While we do not necessarily endorse all details of this study's findings, we believe that as a general matter that they are consistent with the weight of available evidence."
List of SAB Council Members/Consultants
Richard Schmalensee of MIT
Morton Lippmann of New York University Medical Center
William Nordhaus of Yale University
Paul Portney of Resources for the Future
Kip Viscusi of Harvard University
A. Myrick Freeman of Bowdoin College
Maureen Cropper of the World Bank
Ronald Cummings of Georgia State University
Daniel Dudek of the Environmental Defense Fund
Robert Mendelsohn of Yale University
Wayne Kachel of MELE Associates
William Cooper of Michigan State University
Thomas Tietenberg of Colby College
Paul Lioy of the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine
Roger McClellan of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
Richard Conway of Union Carbide Corporation
Wallace Oates of the University of Maryland
David V. Bates of the University of British Columbia
Gardner Brown, Jr. of the University of Washington
Timothy Larson of the University of Washington
Lester Lave of Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Meyer of the University of Wyoming
Robert Rowe of Hagler Bailly, Incorporated
George Taylor of the University of Nevada
Bernard Weiss of the University of Rochester Medical Center
George Wolff of the General Motors Research Laboratory
Benjamin Liu of the University of Minnesota
Peter Mueller of the Electric Power Research Institute
Warren White of Washington University
Joe Mauderly of the Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute
Philip Hopke of Clarkson University
Paulette Middleton of Science Policy Associates
James H. Price, Jr. of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
Harvey Jeffries of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.