You unintentionally hit the nail on the head.
The Obama Administration and the Democrats in general, have used the EPA as a way to destroy industrial activity and provide defacto dictatorial levels of control and enforcement authority to restrict economic activity to bring the country to it's knees economically.
“Protecting the environment” is a pretext for adding regulatory burden economic destruction and the real world goal for the Progressives environmental Jihad
An Argon ban calls them out on this.
Argon is a inert gas that naturally exists in the atmosphere and it is a nobel gas that reacts with noting. As such it is used in a large number of industrial process, welding one of them, to provide a stable, non reactive environment.
Once it has been used it is either recaptured for reuse, or vented back to the Earths atmosphere where it originally came from. It's industrial use has no net effect on the Earth's atmosphere or environment, nor is there any possible way that it could.
This policy to regulate Argon, an inert gas with not environmental, health or safety impact shows exposes the arbitrary and malevolent side of the EPA.
Attempts to force America to ban Di Hydrogen Monoxide show the ignorance of the Progressive Environmentalists, but the attempts to ban Argon show the malevolent side because no one can be that stupid.
Agreed! Point well said.