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The White House last week touted its plans to streamline regulations and save businesses $10 billion over the next five years. And it promises that similar review efforts will continue. In the Wall Street Journal, regulatory czar Cass Sunstein wrote that the White House Chief of Staff told federal agencies to “prioritize regulatory actions that promote economic growth and job creation.”

This message needs to make its way to the top, and the President must put a stop to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory war on job-creating businesses. That agency’s agenda is a direct threat to economic growth and job creation. Saving $10 billion is little consolation when trillions in new regulatory costs are on the horizon.

Any serious strategy to create jobs has to address the EPA’s agendaâ€"and the President is in a position to do just that. The EPA has proposed a number of new and revised regulations that would harm job growth and do! long-term damage to our economy. Millions of Americans are out of work, and the EPA is undeterred in going forward with an agenda that will make new jobs even more scarce in this country.

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