Humorously, my recollection is that President Reagan asked someone to do a cost benefit analysis to support his desire to weaken controls on lead gasoline and t

Humorously, my recollection is that President Reagan asked someone to do a cost benefit analysis to support his desire to weaken controls on lead gasoline and the guy in charge did the opposite and his cost benefit analysis showed that we would save tons of money by eliminating lead, so that's how lead gasoline got eliminated in the US. My recollection is this was the end of this guy's government career but he won some kind of award (a la Nobel Prize levels of money from somewhere) that let him pay cash for a house while working as a professor -- or something like that. I tried to do a search and came up with this article that fits with that recollection but doesn't exactly verify the details I remember and I have no idea how to track down the guy's name, etc etc. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/04/01/cost-benefit-foes-surprised/ca65d1a9-aa94-461f-a882-10853c1f375a/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/04/01/c...