Our economy was built by digging big holes, drilling holes, building dams, cutting down forests and reshaping the land.
We also admittedly suffered some consequences like water and air pollution acceptable levels of which are continuously tightened, seemingly arbitrarily. How will our economy grow with overzealous oversight. Obviously not as fast.
Technology jobs are available only for an educated class. Jobs for the people who earn a living doing physical work are under fire and have been since Nixon enacted the EPA.
Delaying the regulations is either a realization of the harm that will befall the consumer or an election year ploy.