What has happened is that the tight leash, the muzzle that the Bush administration improperly put on the EPA for years has been released.
It is actually quite dangerous for the health of our communities.
If you look at the cost benefit ratio of the Clean Air Act, it is $30 of benefits for every dollar invested.
The biggest thing that we have in Rhode Island is the Dunkin' Donuts Center, it seats 14,500 people.
It threatens, just that program, 5,000 jobs, just that program.
That is a pretty big chatter strip to go driving across and pretend that everything is going to be just OK.
I don't think that figure is in any serious dispute.
I am not going to fight to see jobs lost.
Because wise enforcement diminishes the collateral costs that polluters love to push out onto the rest of the public.
The largest cut of any agency, EPA gets a 30 percent cut.
That is not in dispute either.