These changes will generate expenses that will ultimately be passed on to patients.
Right-to-Know: Much Pain, Little Gain [for Small Businesses]
[Mandating that businesses share trade secrets with the EPA is a] formidable burden [that may] ruin many businesses.
[Do we really need] strict regulations or to go in with fines?
[Requiring small businesses to report their toxic releases would] cost thousands of dollars for over 100,000 small business facilities, many of which have profits in the $10,000 range.
[OSHA has] substantially overstated the risks of fires, explosions and other hazards…the costs of the rule greatly exceed the benefits.
Research shows that no one level of dust is more hazardous than another -- it's a combination of factors… We think the record shows elevators of various size are using a variety of options to reduce explosions.
We feel that [the court’s decision] is not the step in the right direction because the mushroom industry is faced with the dilemma of increased costs. It’s an economic crunch. We’ve been in that crunch for two, 2 _ years and here’s another cost factor.
The law would have us label every single container, and in our case that is burdensome and unrealistic.
In reviewing the proposed form mandated by S.51, it appears that much of the information required would not be useable….[and] The costs to small businesses of measuring such emissions would be staggering.