&gt; There&#x27;s no competitive advantage to not polluting, or we wouldn&#x27;t ever have needed an EPA in the first place!<p>Why do you need the EPA again? My local government represents my locality. It can easily sue in civil court for any damage to the environment and use the resulting funds to make repairs. With the feds stepping in, makes this scenario much more complicated and difficult. They have jurisdiction.<p>&gt; There&#x27;s such an imbalance of power between employer and employee
&gt; self-empowered free agents<p>Let me posit that if you have a traditional employer, you are not a &quot;self-empowered free agent&quot;. Ditch your employer. Thank the maker we&#x27;re slowly moving toward that eventuality.<p>&gt; All the regulations the libertarians want to turn back, they all came about in response to the world working so imperfectly<p>That&#x27;s one possibility. Another is that &quot;special interests&quot; lobbied for those changes at which point the politician came up with a more pleasant justification for said regulations, sold them to the ignorant public, and now they&#x27;re in place.<p>Which do you think is more likely?