Ignoring the environmental and public health mission that is at the heart of the EPA’s very reason for existence should strike all of us as an ominous omission. And it does not appear to be accidental. In his first remarks to the agency’s staff in February, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said that regulations “existto give certainty to those that they regulate.” Of course, providing regulatory certainty to industrial polluters is an important part of the process, a means for achieving the agency’s goals. But it cannot be the ultimate goal itself. It is not the reason why the regulations “exist.”
The purpose of environmental regulations is to preserve for you and your family healthy air, clean water, and security of the nation’s most threatened natural resources. The rules exist to save lives. Remember, Congress passed the Clean Air Act four years after a poisonous smog killed an estimated 200 people in New York City in 1966. The statutory language insisted that the EPA set air-quality standards to protect public health without regard to cost.
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...tions_because_he_doesn_t_understand_them.html
The purpose of environmental regulations is to preserve for you and your family healthy air, clean water, and security of the nation’s most threatened natural resources. The rules exist to save lives. Remember, Congress passed the Clean Air Act four years after a poisonous smog killed an estimated 200 people in New York City in 1966. The statutory language insisted that the EPA set air-quality standards to protect public health without regard to cost.
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...tions_because_he_doesn_t_understand_them.html
