I agree with birth control and family planning education. However, I find abhorrent China's policy of forced abortion and sterilization. Abortion is not an acceptable form of birth control, and not an environmental issue. For example, if the government determines your property is a wetland and cannot be developed or farmed as a result, this law would require proper payment for your loss. Common sense dictates that potential job loss must be part of the equation.
Bureaucracies often trade jobs for negligible gains.
This law would require the EPA to work with employers to protect the environment as opposed to mandating cookie-cutter solutions. Look at Onondaga Lake for an example. Study after study has told us that Allied Chemical and the city's sewer system are the major polluters. Under H.R. 961, local common sense would have been able to save money and jobs. This bill would have kept the same high water quality standards for nitrogen, phosphorous and mercury in Onondaga Lake.