An example of what Wayne Alderson is trying to end......

......coming straight from the EPA.   How so?

Well, the attached testimony makes it clear that the EPA is trying to shove its regulations through, contrary to law I believe, without a good appraisal of the economic costs of their decision.

Now if economic costs were independent of ecological costs--and anyone who knows the economics of hybrid cars (talk to people in Brantford, Ontario, for example, about nickel mining for NiMetal hydride batteries) knows this isn't true--it would be one thing.  Reality is, however, that when people are impoverished, they simply cannot afford to take the steps to make their own personal environments better.  Just ask anyone who has ever traveled to a developing country--when you're worried about your next meal, little things like "insulating your house" and "sanitary sewers" go right out the window.  For that matter, they're very happy to have a motorbike with visible emissions--just like, quite frankly, I'm seeing a lot more rusted out cars with blue smoke coming out the tailpipe in our country these days.

In other words, what we have is not only a government agency without respect for the law and the citizens, but we also have a government agency which really doesn't understand how to do its job.  Their decision making process would likely make the environment dirtier due to the ways people would cope with its decisions.