The House is expected to take up a bill today, called the TRAIN Act, which would waste $2 million of taxpayer money by mandating redundant cost-benefit analyses of environmental and health regulations. Where applicable, these analyses are already required by existing laws and in most cases already have been done, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Below is a statement by Rachel Cleetus, UCS economist. “The TRAIN Act is a colossal waste of money. To mandate that high level officials from virtually every government department complete duplicative analyses of Envionmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations is a massive bureaucratic boondoggle.