Schools will
report inflated costs in order to keep their reported profits lower, so they can cry poor when asking taxpayers and students for financial assistance.
Not exact matches
Related claims in a lawsuit that the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York
inflated construction
costs by more than $ 100 million at the megaproject, the New York Post
reported.
IPCC
report shows Stern
inflated climate change
costs How much does climate change
cost?
Regarding the
reports on renewable energy standards, Frank Ackerman, a Harvard PhD and Senior Economist with Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. said the Beacon Hill Institute models contained «wild overstatement (s) of the
cost of wind energy, assumed that expensive backup capacity was always needed and running when wind energy was used,
inflated the price of new transmission capacity, and overestimated job losses due to assumption of «hypersensitivity to tax rates.
While the EPA projects new investments in energy efficiency under the Clean Power Plan will ultimately generate savings on electricity bills for consumers, a
report by NERA Economic Consulting ignores energy efficiency's proven ability to save consumers money and artificially
inflates the
costs of the EPA's proposal.
A widely cited
report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce contains no mention of the benefits of reducing carbon emissions and falsely
inflates the
costs of the proposed standards using what the EPA dubbed «unfounded assumptions.»
Comments from the experts reveal alarming examples of this pressure, including being asked to
inflate care
costs, delete parts of their
report and change the prognosis and diagnosis, and having fees withheld as leverage to alter the
report.