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Clinton pulled this with a wide range of regulations:

- Clean water standards on rangelands for ephemeral streams - one cowpie when the stream was running was enough to cause problems for a rancher.

- Pesticide regulations and safety “standards” that are based on idiotic notions of toxicology which are not backed up by science. A whole host of pesticides were de-labeled as a result, driving costs to farmers up.

- Clean water standards on arsenic were reduced from 50 ppb to 10 ppb, which has no justification in any research. Again, based on witchcraft posing as science. This single regulation cost taxpayers in the intermountain west hundreds of millions of dollars when their local muni water sources no longer were in compliance because the west has a lot of ground water that’s anywhere from 15 ppb to 45 ppb arsenic.

I could go on and on, but there’s lots of regs that Clinton left in the EPA on the way out the door that caused huge problems for the country. Bush tried to reverse the arsenic reg, but caught huge blowback in the press from it. The environazi’s had a pre-planned press package ready for the reversal attempt, because they knew that a lot of “red states” would be asking for variances or the reg eliminated. Bush listened, and then got creamed in the press for it.

If Romney wants to stop or reverse this coal reg flurry, he’d better have a PR campaign set up to discredit Obama, the environmentalists and, if that fails, set up FERC to pass on the higher costs of power generation to the urban areas that voted for Obama. Give the Obama voters what they want - higher power rates. Crush them under power rate increases like they’re seeing in Germany - up to a quadrupling of power rates (per kWh) for environmentally-correct power.