Joel A. Mintz is professor of law emeritus and C. William Trout Senior Fellow at Nova Southeastern University College of Law, and a board member of the Center for Progressive Reform.
        
              
  
      
          Rural America                  
            
        The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls
      
                    Major polluters were deemed 'essential.' Under EPA policy, environmental and safety inspectors were not.
                          
                      Victor B. Flatt and                       Joel A. Mintz