Indeed, EO 12,866 (which is still in force today, and is incorporated into Section 3 of the new EO 14,094), provides in Section 1(a):   [A]gencies should assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives … Costs and benefits shall be understood to include both quantifiable measures (to the fullest extent that these can be usefully estimated) and qualitative measures of costs and benefits that are difficult to quantify, but… [read post]