The most destructive EPA program you’ve never heard of

Congress has to stand up to the EPA's out-of-control bureaucracy that uses extreme environmental rules to restrict chemicals. The result will cost jobs and hurt innovation.

If IRIS’s impossible standard for formaldehyde becomes the basis for new regulations, companies that produce formaldehyde could be subject to sweeping litigation. This would jeopardize more than a million jobs and $70 billion in payroll costs, not to mention the catastrophic impact it could have on our national security.   Republican Glenn Grothman represents Wisconsin's 6th District in the United States House of Representatives.

Just look at what’s happening with formaldehyde, a naturally occurring substance that is produced by trees, fires and our own bodies. Americans depend on this chemical for medical devices, agricultural products, building materials and automobiles. Yet IRIS is trying to set an air concentration limit below what is produced naturally — or what can even be detected.