Rich Trzupek, author of Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA Is Ruining American Industry (Encounter Books)
Forty years ago, America had serious environmental problems. Rivers were polluted and smog filled cities. That changed with common sense regulations that made our environment progressively cleaner, and today America is one of the cleanest countries in the world. But Rich Trzupek’s Regulators Gone Wild: How the EPA Is Ruining American Industry (Encounter Books, 2011) demonstrates that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not satisfied with these spectacular results; it has no conception of “clean enough.”
Instead, the EPA continues to make its regulations stricter in every area. Since a toxin is a toxin, no matter how small, the question of dose is entirely irrelevant. The question of cost is even less relevant to the agency. EPA promulgates regulations based not on what levels of pollution should be, but on what they can be....