EPA’s Approaching Regulatory Avalanche: A Regulatory Spree Unprecedented in U.S. History

From The Texas Public Policy Foundation:

Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, & Science

EPA’s Approaching Regulatory Avalanche: A Regulatory Spree Unprecedented in U.S. History

by Kathleen Hartnett White

Texas Public Policy Foundation

February 06, 2012

Policy Study

The Environmental Protection Agency, under the Obama administration, is churning out new rules unprecedented in speed, number, scope, stringency and costs. Yet the new rules have marginal, if indeed measurable at all, health benefits. Nor are they supported by credible science. Congress should reclaim its constitutional authority to control the Environmental Protection Agency’s implementation of the Clean Air Act and return to the states the primary authority to implement the law.

URL: www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2012-02-RR01-EPAsApproachingRegulatoryAvalanche-ACEE-KathleenHartnettWhite.pdf