This year, in the face of political opposition and high cost estimates, the White House backed off on new smog rules, which would also have affected power plants.
" In 2016, when Sanders challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, high cost estimates and the idea of wiping out private insurers kept many Democrats from embracing universal health care.
In states dominated by Democrats, single-payer campaigns have been thwarted by the high cost estimates — a preview, some worry, of what would happen if the plans went national.
A set of unexpectedly high cost estimates -- arcane data that nevertheless carry enormous import in the legislative process -- sent shockwaves along Pennsylvania Avenue and forced one key committee to delay action on its bill, probably until after the July 4 recess.
The water shortage took on an even more urgent aspect this week when the government announced that an anticipated long-term solution, a project that would have extracted 2.15 billion cubic meters, or nearly 570 billion gallons, of water from the Red Sea every year, was to be scaled back because of its high cost, estimated at more than $14 billion.
One of the reasons that critics like Thorpe come up with such high cost estimates is that they take at face value the version of the Sanders plan that is found on his campaign Web site.
Indeed, a recent study in Escherichia coli suggested that the production of enzymes with a high cost (estimated from their abundance and molecular weight) is more tightly controlled than that of enzymes with a lower cost [ 23].
It would have been an unmitigated disaster, with an even higher cost estimate".
At a press briefing on Jan . 30 the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, said Mr. Bush had been informed of the final higher cost estimate "just in the last two weeks".
