“Absent decisive congressional action, it may be many years before our economy digs out from the crushing cost of the EPA’s regulatory avalanche.”
Kathleen White writes in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:
The nation’s most powerful regulatory agency, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is on a collision course with America’s still fragile economic recovery.
As I outline in a report published recently by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, 10 to 25 major EPA rules are scheduled to take effect over the next few years, each with a multi-billion dollar price tag and highly debatable benefits for public health…
The article states: “Since 1970, aggregate emissions of the six criteria pollutants regulated under the Clean Air Act have decreased 53 percent. EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory documents a 65 percent reduction since 1988.”
That’s long enough to test for a trend in human health outcomes associated with breathing. Especially since many adults living today were born during the period involved. Let’s see some correlation, at least. I’ve never seen such a correlation, but if there were one suggesting beneficial effects, the EPA would be bragging about it. Ergo, ‘no correlation’ is highly likely.