How Washington Regulation Strangled American Manufacturing

How Washington Regulation Strangled American Manufacturing
A pile of scrap steel lies on the ground from the dismantling of PacifiCorp's coal-fired Carbon Power Plant, in Helper, Utah, on Feb. 1, 2017. The 62-year-old plant was closed due to the high cost of coming into compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's mercury-emissions rules. George Frey/Stringer/Getty Images
E.J. Antoni
Peter St Onge
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U.S. Steel, the world’s first billion-dollar company, is being sold for scrap. And Washington made it happen.