The House Republican leadership and Tea Party conservatives have made it clear they plan to run a crusade against regulation generally, and environmental regulation, in particular. They are planning to bring up legislation in July that would dismantle the regulatory system, and spending bills are already starting to fill up with riders to block specific rules.

Once rules have been in place for a time, they tend either to be taken for granted, or celebrated as “progress” that was made by society as a whole Keep reading →