The EPA is a jobs program for eco-fanatics and liberals with a heavy dose of affirmative action. If they don’t come up with ever more draconian regulations then they are out of a job...at least theoretically.
Ir really helps to understand the modern Federal Gov’t as being 60% a jobs program for leftists, so all kinds of Federale trough feeders have to look busy and useful.
EXAMPLE__ The Department of Education employs 600 people in its civil rights division. Thats an amazingly high number. Those jobs go 100% to affirmative action babies and liberals
In truth, much of the regulating and rule writing is done by EPA contractors as directed