After being re-energised by President Obama’s support for an activist “green” policy agenda, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed or already approved new regulations that promise to hobble economic growth and add to the nation’s unemployment problem, says William F. Shughart II, a senior fellow at the Independent Institute.
Consider the following:
These are just a handful of the costly, job-killing regulations the EPA has imposed or is preparing to impose. Many of the initiatives are aimed directly at the oil and natural gas sector, which is an important driver of job growth and accounts for 85 percent of our nation’s energy supplies, says Shughart.
Source: William F. Shughart II, Congress Should Rein in EPA, Independent Institute, January 9, 2011.
For text: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2957
For more on Environment Issues: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=31
First published by the National Center for Policy Analysis, United States
FMF Policy Bulletin/ 18 January 2011
