>>this would be expensive and achieve very little.<<
This is just putting the reins on a country that manufactures too much too easily. It makes the rest of the world look sad.
Agreed. That is what most of the environmental crap is about, as well as OSHA. Some regulation is necessary but their intent is to be crippling. Add the help they get from their buds the labor unions and trial lawyers and it is a wonder we make anything. Even at that, we still make the rest of the world look sad.