The relationship between environmental regulation and economic growth
has gone from dysfunctional to disastrous under the leadership of Barack
Obama's EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Jackson's EPA has assumed broad
new powers and promulgated sweeping new regulations unlike anything
America has seen since the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act were signed
into law 40 years ago. While much of the public has focused on the EPA's
plans to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, the agency's power grab
extends into far more areas of society and the economy than fossil-fuel
use alone.
In this Broadside, Rich Trzupek explains why Obama's EPA is different
and more dangerous than any other since the agency was created. While
the tentacles of this EPA are silently creeping into our lives, Lisa
Jackson smilingly assures us that everything the EPA does generates
revenue - instead of costing industry billions of dollars and America
hundreds of thousands of jobs.