Finding balance.
It is possible to be pro business and pro environment.
Manageable regulations drive process improvements that often save money and increase profit margins with meeting compliance rules.
The hard part is when the feds buy into a rule change that is overly burdensome for minimal environmental impact.
Case in point. The feds have required fire resistant carpets on commercial passenger planes for years. In 2009 they changed the rules to require the fire resistant carpets be made in a more environmental manner from natural renewable materials.
This rule has had a minimal impact on the environment compared to the hundreds of millions being spent bringing planes into compliance.
Naturally taxpayers had to fund millions in R&D to even figure out how to make such carpets.
