I believe that federal environmental regualtions should be limited to air pollutants that traverse state borders and interstate waterway pollution.
I believe all other forms of environmental regulations should be up to the individual states. That way, each state could craft a system best suited to that state's economy and that state's peoples' tastes. Heck, some states might even choose your model. We would see competition of ideas, and the best solutions evolving from trial and error.
Are you familiar with CWA 303(d) TMDLs for non-point pollution control? If you aren't you should know that they are being used as a principle tool of land use control and regulation of development. It's all being done by lawsuit in the States pursuant to an EPA sweetheart suit with the NRDC. It is a real estate scam of the first order.
Maybe you had better rethink that preference. My system is capable of global networking, BTW.