Donald Trump and the EPA: Annulling, Reversing, Replacing and Relocating

The Trump administration must send a wide swathe of EPA staffers packing. It’s time to bleed this beast.

My Cato-associated friend and TAC publisher Jon Basil Utley’s firebrand exposé will boil your blood. John makes it crystal clear why Donald Trump must hold a firm hand in strangling the ghoulish monster that is the EPA. Here’s John rolling into high gear:

Virtually gone amuck during Obama’s last years, the EPA has issued masses of job-killing and job-preventing regulations and rulings that only a very strong and knowledgeable managerial hand can fix. That involves annulling or reversing recent rulings and replacing or relocating many of the agency’s top staffers. Congress also needs to reverse recent rulings and subpoena the records of staffers who’ve dealt with outside environmental groups to bring about the EPA’s job-destroying “sue and settle” and “sweetheart suits” schemes. These prevent productive economic uses for a vast amount of land. I have written before how there is almost no new mining investment in Western lands and Alaska because of EPA regulations and generated lawsuits.

The ways Washington hurts job creation and burdens industry with billions of unproductive costs are far too many to fit in a short article; however, I refer readers to my many past articles at Reason. Just two of them give lots of details and links, including explanations about carbon dioxide, cement, ozone, lead paint, factory boilers, oil drilling, ethanol, and radiation health limits in case of “dirty bombs.”

(See: “Job Killing Environmentalists” and “Confronting Washington’s Job Killers.”)