Write a 750-word essay on how the Environmental Protection Agency's policies impact business in the...

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Write a 750-word essay on how the Environmental Protection Agency's policies impact business in the United States.

Use the Environmental Protection Agency website: http:
www.epa.gov/superfund
elated.htm. Ensure your report includes at least one specific EPA program and explain whether the program promotes business investment or discourages it.

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Running Head: EPA’s POLICIES & BUSINESSES  1 
 
EPA’s POLICIES & BUSINESSES  
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EPA’s POLICIES & BUSINESSES  2 
 
Introduction 
Henry Miller, molecular biologist and physician at Stanford University, recently quoted 
in one of his online articles that “EPA’s policies and actions torture both statutes and common 
sense to a degree that approaches malfeasance.” The title of the article, “The Worst Head of the 
Worst Regulatory Agency”, itself described the direction of the whole write-up. (Miller, 2013) 
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is regarded as the most expensive federal 
regulatory agency. With a modest $11 billion annual budget, it also accrues it costs from various 
other dealings. According to the best available estimates, the U.S. economy flushes $353 billion 
(Young, 2012) per year to comply with EPA regulations. By way of comparison, this is more 
than 30 times its own budget, more than the entire national GDPs of Denmark ($332 billion) and 
Thailand ($345 billion). EPA last released such an estimate in 1990. The figure here is from the 
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews, who parsed through humongous publicly 
available documents, cost estimates of economically significant regulations and whatever 
financials he could find. 
The Debate 
We can debate that the agency should be much more open about the burdens it imposes. 
An annual estimate of the total cost of all its rules currently in effect, by an independent auditor 
can help to an extent. An external independent person is needed because the agency has an 
incentive to lowball their costs and highball their benefits. 
EPA’s Policies have a major influence on all industries across US especially 
manufacturing and exploration. According to a recently adopted regulation (Harder, 2011), 
known as the "good neighbor" rule,

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