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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new mercury emissions rules last week without including the results of a Harvard study on the public health benefits of reducing mercury pollution, a decision that has sparked an outcry from several Democrats in Congress...
According to EPA Press Secretary Cynthia Bergman, the Harvard study was left out of the EPA’s report because its final version was submitted on February 22, over a month after the EPA’s deadline, which “did not provide the EPA with sufficient time to thoroughly evaluate the report...
...government should introduce a new cash flow into the economy, either through tax rebates or through massive public projects, but there is a simpler way. Many of the United States’ largest employment industries often spend much of their money complying with very strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the release of certain compounds such as carbon monoxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act alone is costing the industry $523 billion over 23 years, money that could be better spent elsewhere. If the government was simply to eliminate these standards...
Once these previously jobless citizens are employed, they will spend more money on the economy, thereby spurring greater job growth and causing more hiring, ad infinitum. Thus, eliminating EPA standards would single-handedly pull the United States economy out of its slump. Of course, once the economy was growing at a fast rate, the government would be collecting more money in taxes that it could then use to either pay down its national debt or invade Iran or Syria, as our President sees...
...advantages to relaxing EPA standards are not strictly economic. As a new Massachusetts resident, I have been privy to the harsh New England winters. By releasing greater quantities of carbon monoxide and CFCs into the atmosphere, the United States government could spur global warming to make the weather much more pleasant in the winter. Imagine the quality of life increase for all the New England residents who could go outside in the middle of January with nothing but a T-shirt and shorts. In addition to the added comfort, more moderate temperatures would eliminate problems associated with icy roads...