Comment by burkaman

The important point is that he was paid to write the argument against them. In theory it would be great to have a sort of team of rivals where intellectual opponents of regulations consult with the agency and push back on excessive or ineffective rules, but this guy doesn't have a principled philosophical objection, he just writes for whoever pays him the most money. We can be pretty certain that the federal government is not the highest bidder for his services, so why is he working at the EPA?