by Laura Huggins A recent editorial in the New York Times points
out that Republicans in the next Congress are set on limiting
the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean
Air Act to regulate a wide range of air pollutants and urges the
White House to support the EPA. But as Henry Miller writes in a
response, the EPA's policies and procedures "have often been
textbook examples of how not to regulate." Miller reports that
the risk of fatality to the average worker at Superfund toxic
waste sites is actually larger than the "cancer risks to
individuals that might result from exposures to unremediated
sites." True. But perhaps the root of the problem is Congress,
not the EPA. As David Schoenbrod suggests in PERC Reports: By
leaving lawmaking to the EPA, legislators shy away from such
responsibility. They bestow a right to protection without
themselves imposing any burden. The anger falls on the EPA
because it is left with the job of allocating the burdens among
pollution sources. The EPA takes