Do excessive demands imposed by environmental regulatory agencies lead to massive layoffs? According to the Mass Layoff Statistics kept by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 0.1 percent of all layoffs were “environment and safety-related” from 1987 to 1990. The most recent data, from 2012, covering 6,500 private, non-farm layoff events, show that forty-five events, or 0.69 percent of the total layoffs, were “disaster or safety” related, including events attributed to “hazardous work environment” or “natural disaster.” Only eighteen events, or 0.28 percent of the total, were attributed to
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