What happened in the 1980's with environmental laws and regulations because some people claimed that the laws and regulations were hurting the economy?

James Carter enacted strict laws that limited the exploitation of natural resources, limited the use of non-renewable energies and increased the size of environmental reserves.

Explanation:

In the early 1980s James Carter turned his administration over to a policy with a strong environmental bias. He started by hiring influential environmentalists to hold some government positions, in addition to asking them for constant advice on nature, its exploitation and the degradation that could occur.

As a result, he enacted numerous laws that exercised serious environmental protection regulations, limiting their exploitation, the use of non-renewable energy, the burning of fossil fuels, in addition to doubling the areas of environmental reserves and areas of environmental protection. This had a bad effect on businessmen, who claimed that these regulations reduced the factors of production necessary for the manufacture of goods and services and, therefore, hurt the economy.

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