Government,
Environmental & Energy,
Corporate,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 4, 2017
Gutting the EPA will be bad for business
If all that matters to you is business, you might think cutting the Environmental Protection Agency's budget is good news. But you'd be mistaken.
The Trump administration recently proposed to cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by approximately 30 percent (Congress is currently proposing a much smaller cut). Obviously, this is no modest adjustment. One does not achieve reductions of that scale without gutting major parts of the agency.
For people who care about clean air, clean water, or other kinds of environmental quality, the threatened cuts are rather alarming. But what if you don't care about those things? W...
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