Impact of EPAs regulations on U.S. economy. Environmental Protection Agency: EPA, is an agency of the U.S. federal government which was created for the purpose of

protecting human health and the environment. Since its inception in 1970, EPA wrote countless number of regulations. Many of

them are controversial, and led to closure of numerous businesses and laying-off thousands of people. It appears that this agency

hurt our economy. I strongly disagree.

When looking at world economy as a whole, I concluded that there's deliberate and systematic plan of replacing low paying,

dangerous and harmful jobs in favor of high paying and safer ones in our country. EPAs regulations are one of many governments

tools designed to position USA at the top of the world economic pyramid and to keep our environment healthy for future

generations. It may sound controversial but it is a smart and logical move. Every company which produces goods, comprise of specific people performing different tasks. There are visionary peoples

and entrepreneurs whose ideas are turn into products by developers and engineers. Ordinary factory workers produce those

products, which are then delivered to retailers who sell them to customers.

Some of those people have high paying, clean and safe work. Others earn low wages, and often work in harmful conditions in a

factory which pollutes environment and consumes a lots of energy.

Different stages of production affect contributing people and environment in a specific way. I think that it is safe to assume, that

most people would trade unhealthy factory job in favor of clean office work in design or sales department, and live far away from

factory.

World, is a small place. We live in a global village. It's not only individuals who specialize in specific part of production, it's entire

countries. In current global economy, countries have comparative advantage over others. Governments realized, that it is very costly

to compete with each other in global market. So why do this? As we all know specialization improves economy. In micro scale a

carpenter is better in building a house and designer is better in designing it. The same applies to countries. For example, China is

better in production of cheap goods because it has large labor force working for relatively low wages.

In contrast Germany is good in designing and developing new technologies because of its high number of well educated engineers.

So let China keep their factories, where workers are exposed to accidents and which pollute environment. Let them pay for ever

increasing spending on health care and environment cleanup efforts. Let us keep entrepreneurs, developers, engineers and other

high earning people who will pay significantly higher taxes from their much higher wages. Let us have cleaner environment for our

future generations.

Opponents of this theory may claim that we also need factory jobs, and some industries are strategic for the country. That's true.

I am sure however, that our government keeps minimal necessary amount of strategic resources. Moreover, other countries needs

us as much as we need them. Nobody will fight with such a good consumer. We also have a lots of factory work in Zero-Waste

factories producing cars and high end components.

Economist Adam Smith wrote: "Life is not a race, it's a journey to savor and enjoy". I think we should stop fighting with

another countries for polluting factories. Instead we should enjoy our clean and safe jobs and environment. Wealthier and healthier

people spent more, which in turn improves economy. That's what government want from us, and is using EPA in this effort. In my

opinion that's the biggest and most significant impact of EPA's regulations on our economy.