Government Energy Policy, Business and Technology

What EPA gets right

The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency can be an inconvenient regulator no matter who’s in the Oval Office. If a president’s priority is to quickly create jobs and grow the economy, environmental regulations can be burdensome and costly. If his focus is to fight health and ecological threats, business considerations have to wait.

But since its inception in 1970 under President Nixon, EPA has managed to get the balance right more often than not. Both industry and EPA’s critics agree that our air is cleaner and our water is safer even as business has managed to thrive. What’s needed now is finding enough resources and will to maintain the many respected programs that lawmakers and presidents from both political parties have worked so hard to devise—especially when it comes to chemicals.

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