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ew EPA rules push regulatory costs past $1 trillion, $3,080 per person

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The new implementation of EPA rules on heavy trucks has boosted the 10-year regulatory burden on America past $1 trillion, 75 percent of which have been imposed by the Obama administration.
"In other words, each year every person, regardless of age, in the nation is responsible for paying roughly $540 in regulatory costs. These burdens might take the form of higher prices, fewer jobs, or reduced wages," said AAF's Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy at the watchdog group.
The staggering amount is likely to surge even higher as President Obama scrambles to lock in several environmental regulations before leaving office. He has already broken records for new regulations and added red tape this year and still has 50 days in office.
Incoming President-elect Trump has promised to kill two current regulations for every new one he adds.
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New EPA rules push regulatory costs past $1 trillion, $3,080 per person | Washington Examiner

Another reason Trump won, he's promised, I know a Trump promise, to roll back this insanity.
 
A right-wing PAC said it, so it must be true... lol

Oh, and have fun with all the smog, toxic waste, polluted water, brownfields, asthma, pesticide-coated food, oil spills that can't be cleaned up, leaky pipelines, PCB's, formaldehyde (what am I leaving out?) that will be rampant without the EPA.
 
I hope to see the EPA dissolved one day. The major federal environmental laws, several of which it administers and makes rules to implement, have not done much good while costing staggering amounts of money.
 
matchlight said:
I hope to see the EPA dissolved one day. The major federal environmental laws, several of which it administers and makes rules to implement, have not done much good while costing staggering amounts of money.
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I don't want to see them dissolved, just neutered a bit. They keep overreaching their authority.
 
Visbek said:
A right-wing PAC said it, so it must be true... lol

Oh, and have fun with all the smog, toxic waste, polluted water, brownfields, asthma, pesticide-coated food, oil spills that can't be cleaned up, leaky pipelines, PCB's, formaldehyde (what am I leaving out?) that will be rampant without the EPA.
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I missed the part where they said "abolish the EPA" or anything like that in the whole article. Can you point that out to me or are you just going over the edge with the exaggeration? :wow::2mad::lamo
 
matchlight said:
I hope to see the EPA dissolved one day. The major federal environmental laws, several of which it administers and makes rules to implement, have not done much good while costing staggering amounts of money.
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People must have short memories or an ignorance of history.
 
NonoBadDog said:
I don't want to see them dissolved, just neutered a bit. They keep overreaching their authority.
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I don't see any reason to keep the EPA. The country seems to have done pretty well without it before 1969, and the states all have similar agencies of their own. But then I'd also like to see the Departments of Education and Commerce dissolved.
 
matchlight said:
I don't see any reason to keep the EPA. The country seems to have done pretty well without it before 1969, and the states all have similar agencies of their own. But then I'd also like to see the Departments of Education and Commerce dissolved.
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I think the EPA does some good, as it was intended in the beginning. Rocky Flats was a success. There are a lot of Superfund sites that no other agency would have had the resources to deal with. But now they want to rule the everything that happens in the sky, on the earth and in the water in the interest of some global utopian cause. Their power and regulations need to be cut back to an enforcement agency rather than a legislative body.
 
Visbek said:
A right-wing PAC said it, so it must be true... lol

Oh, and have fun with all the smog, toxic waste, polluted water, brownfields, asthma, pesticide-coated food, oil spills that can't be cleaned up, leaky pipelines, PCB's, formaldehyde (what am I leaving out?) that will be rampant without the EPA.
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Do you engage in hyperbole often?
 
NonoBadDog said:
I don't want to see them dissolved, just neutered a bit. They keep overreaching their authority.
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I'm with you here. They go to far at times but they also have done some good. I kinda like it that our rivers don't catch on fire anymore.
 
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