Regulation and the Environment

摘要

The newly elected Republican majority in the US House of Representatives is poised to sharply curtail the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to issue new environmental regulations and enforce existing rules. The anti-regulatory fervor is reminiscent of Republican efforts in the mid-1990s, spear- headed by former Representative Tom DeLay, Republican-Texas, who called EPA the "Gestapo of government." In private life, DeLay owned an exterminating business and reportedly ran for office because of his anger over EPA regulation of DDT.