Invited Perspective: Advancing Cumulative Approaches in Regulatory Decision Making.

The authors comment on a study that demonstrated a developmental version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program-Community Edition that is said to represent an important advance in the agency's capability for cost-benefit analyses of cumulative risks. They discuss the results of quantifying changes in concentrations of air pollutants and associated changes in pediatric emergency department visits for asthma in Atlanta, Georgia.