Let's Modernize Our Pollution Laws Critique In "Let's Modernize Our Pollution Laws" (8 October 2015), Gregg Easterbrook argues that the environmental laws are too outdated to do any help now. He feels that laws need to be modernized to accommodate the change in carbon emissions. At the conclusion of the article, he asks for a compromise between the two political parties to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. While Easterbrook makes some good points in his article, he fails to acknowledge what is already being done to help the environment and the consequences of what he is asking for. Easterbrook spends much of his time discussing how outdated and even counterproductive some of America's environmental laws are. He points out that the
