When you hire someone to write regulations, that’s their job. Once the job is done, say, air quality is improved, then they have to keep on doing their job. They write regulations. Once everything has been optimized, they start writing regulations on what font to use in which applications and how many times workers can pee while on a government contract.
What the government should do, is hire a consultant to write whatever regulation. Once it’s done, terminate the contract. Don’t make them a public employee forever tasked with writing ever more elaborate and ridiculous regulations.
That is some good thinking right there.
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I am certain that most if not all air quality rules and regulations put out by the EPA are in fact written by consultants. I know one such rule writer very, very well.
The EPA air quality operation is located in the research Triangle at Raleigh/Durham NC
I’ll have to issue a caution here. I can’t remember which precedes the other......... a rule or a regulation
One additional thing:
Have ALL regulations have an expiration date, say 20 years.
At expiration, it either gets reapproved with fresh justification as to why it’s still needed, or it expires.
Agree - the EPA hasn’t done anything of value since before Clinton was in office. Everything they’ve done since 1993 has been based on lies and junk science. Just protecting their own jobs, as you say.
I hope I am correct in believing this is one of the most positive legal actions of my life. For most of my career I fruitlessly battled the absolute control of bureaucrats and participated in futile attempts of defense aganst them via public comment that was then ignored as agencies did as they pleased. All I have to see to be reminded of capricious, foolish and heavy handed regulation is my gas cans that are now modified to actually dispense gasoline or my three different refrigeration gas tanks etc.
That this decision has been made on the basis of the 1946 Administrative Procedures Act gives me great comfort it will stand for a long time. Right is only done when people choose to seek it and now they have. This court may be Trump's greatest legacy.
Retroactively the challenge of parts of the existing 700,000 or so pages of the CFR created by political wonks, ideaologies and other assorted tyrannical bureaucrats may not be so easy. There is the matter of stare decisis specifically mentioned in Robert's ruling. I am not sure how that effects appeal and overturning of the thousands of times Chevron has been used to put down opposition to tyranny. Going forward though there should at least be a damper put on extra legal regulation.
For the moment I am enjoying the hand wringing of the left and their declarations of disaster. I can clearly see that we are now over the right target. Never mind their feeble arguments of how the government's so called experts are the qualified authority to lord over us. What a preposterous notion!!!