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The EPA seems to doing good work with things like leaded gas, CFCs, PFASs, etc. I feel like our atomic energy agencies are pretty above-board too.
by itishappy 3y ago
The EPA seems to doing good work with things like leaded gas, CFCs, PFASs, etc.
I feel like our atomic energy agencies are pretty above-board too.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoWhat you're really getting at is that sometimes the regulation of a sector is captured by the largest players in a different sector, e.g. fossil fuel energy companies want regulation of nuclear power to make it cost prohibitive. The EPA is a similar story. It justifies itself by banning leaded gas etc., but then doesn't do only that, and soon certain domestic industries are wiped out by environmental impact studies and other administrative overhead. The companies in those industries don't care because they just move their facilities offshore. The ones who are already foreign companies or were going to do that anyway may even prefer it, because then the rules eliminate competition from domestic operations in the US. And similar to the case of nuclear, environmental rules are often abused by NIMBYs to inhibit construction rather than merely ensure that it isn't harming the environment.