The EPA has recently begun flexing its muscle and further interfering with the market economy. Under the auspices of a still-developing policy on environmental justice, the EPA has assumed power to determine what industrial plants and waste sites can be built where, and even the number of workers at a plant. The EPA maintains that a
From Patrick Weinert, The Free Market , September 1998: “Government standards for air quality have not only threatened the health of American citizens, they have actually increased public exposure to pollutants. “Air conditioning provides not just cool air, but cleaner air, as well. The fine particles that the EPA wants to regulate are actually
The Free Market 16, no. 9 (September 1998) When Carol Browner, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, proposed new air quality standards last year, she claimed that thousands of Americans are being killed every year by tiny particles in the air with diameters of less than 2.5 microns. The EPA currently regulates airborne pollutants 10
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