Victor B. Flatt is the Dwight Olds Chair in Law and the faculty co-director of the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Center at the University of Houston Law School. He is a Member Scholar at 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