Oh, geez....
Sound studies?? Really?? That isn't a regulation, that is information gathering to help understand cause/effect and overall science. You probably think it's a waste of time studying reproductive habits of frogs, too. Even though they are one of the primary 'bellweathers' of environmental degradation. But hey, that's what the fundamentalist extremist right wants you to believe - nobody should have information about reproduction!
Mileage - goes right with pollution controls. If you use less fuel, you pollute less. And that whole set of regulations has brought you a vehicle today that, while failing massively on the mileage front due to SUV's being excluded, still get slightly better AND get 100,000 miles on a set of spark plugs. Wires. No distributor cap, condensor, points, etc. EGR so there is less blowby and WAY less exhaust stink. You can always tell which dipstick has taken out his pollution controls - by the stench of 'rotten eggs'.
Can go 7,500 to 10,000 miles on an oil change. Runs on a vastly more healthy fuel with no lead. Gives you the opportunity to run on a 10% ethanol mix that has several major benefits that assist in prolonging life of your car! Yeah, you take a 3% hit on mileage, but you get a 20%+ lower fuel cost, too! Oh the horror of it all...
Plus we don't have rivers catching fire any more. For me, that's a good thing...but hey, I can see how you might not think so.
And Mark Hendrickson...?? Really?? Ok. It looks like Grove City college is doing some interesting work - especially in their chemistry department - studying fracking so the entire US can enjoy the benefits of newly created earthquake zones!
Asbestos is good and it was just government overreach to get rid of it!! Really?? Whew! Step away from the Kook-Aid!!
DDT - yeah, just more government overreach. Except now we have eagles all over the place! There was even one hit by a car last weekend on highway 169 between 76th and 86th St N, in the median. But I guess we coulda been just as well off letting them go extinct, along with the other animals impacted heavily by it. Like bees...but they only keep life as we know it possible, so I guess they could go, too.
Wonder why he didn't mention Anne Gorsuch Burford, EPA Administrator under Reagan? Oh, yeah...cause she
was actually breaking Federal law and in general drawing the blueprint for Scott Pruitt. First woman admin AND first one cited for contempt of Congress! Yay, team!! Fraud to the tune of $1.6 billion in Superfund site monies. Gotta be so proud!!
Grove City college
is doing some interesting electrical engineering stuff - one of their projects is an open source hearing aid project! I will be going back to look at that some more - I am extremely interested in that.
Overall, it he is a typical libertarian spewing nonsense about EPA history with the right wing bias applied heavily.