Why Environmental Regulation Is Necessary
Federal environmental policies help ensure that all Americans have the same protection. In the New Yorker, Philip Angell, an EPA special assistant appointed in 1970, the statutes give EPA “the primary authority to set standards and enforce them if the states won’t do it. The whole point was to set a federal baseline.” To assert that “for every new regulation enacted, at least two existing ones” should be removed threatens not only the environment but civil rights and any other social issues that many states have historically failed to protect. With weak federal regulation, will mining companies again be allowed by local governments to dump toxic waste in waterways?
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