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Next year, if proposed new laws encumbering the federal regulatory process were enacted, more than 1,600 Ohioans would experience heart attacks, and children in Pennsylvania would experience over 84,000 additional asthma attacks. In Massachusetts, 200,000 additional cases of foodborne illnesses would occur if these measures became law.

These estimates for the consequences of rendering federal rulemaking more difficult were provided by Demos and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in a series of reports released on Tuesday. The reports break down to the state level the implications of compromising the nation’s capacity to create necessary public protections. National level estimates of the damage caused by the federal government’s failure to regulate may be useful within the beltway, but these reports show us the effects at the level where people experience them.

For almost two years, the American system of regulatory protections has been under relentle! ss attack. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has led the assault, supported mainly by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

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