An editorial in the WSJ by Bruce Dale, July 11, 2016, details the effort of the EPA to regulate the emission of of biogenic carbon. That is the carbon released when the natural process of growing plants, eating them and releasing the carbon stored in them back into the atmosphere, where plants reacquire the carbon.
The author states the attempt has no scientific basis, zero.
I offer the article as another example of bureaucratic creep, or overreach. Any body of regulators will move to cover more ground, there is no limit to what they want to cover, they cover more because they can, and want to.
Small governments is the only way to keep these folks from adding costs to everything thus reducing the ability of the economy to produce economic growth and thus providing more people with wealth so to manage their own lives. The EPA produces nothing, not that we should do away with it. Otherwise we will have Birmingham, Alabama in the 1970’s with horrendous air pollution.
The key is to limit an organization to its’ mission, and only Congress can change it, and the economic costs must be calculated and published.
Those laws are mostly on the books, just not enforced. Like a lot of other issues like immigration.