I had a brief debate with my brother recently about the EPA and other "anti-business" government institutions. I know that the EPA is not necessarily anti-business, as some businesses benefit from regulation, and might welcome more stringent standards to help drive out competitors. Does anyone have sources on the history of the EPA or the Consumer Protection Agency, or other such agencies, that might tell me who in the business sector and elsewhere was responsible for starting up these agencies? My brother seems to think it was labor unions and environmentalists at the helm, a contention he almost certainly got from the Wall Street Journal, which I told him was crazy, but I didn't have specifics to back this up. I plan on going through Philip Burch's volume for the period, but I've lent it out at the moment... Bill
