What: In 1997 the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) established new ozone standards. The EPA also placed special restrictions on twenty-two states in the Ohio Valley and Midwest regions to prevent emissions from coal-burning power plants from being carried into the New England States by wind currents. (Tennessee is one of these twenty-two states.) Both of these rulings were recently either struck down or placed on hold by Federal Appeals Courts. Why: The regulations put into place …showed first 75 words of 1347 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1347 total…regulations void because they are not properly delegated by Congress then the floodgates will open on lawsuits against numerous such regulations. If an already unproductive Congress is forced to create all of their own regulations then the country will come to a stand still. If, however, these regulations are created at random without proper Congressional supervision then a main portion of our system of checks and balances will be voided. A compromise must me attained.