> From 5 percent of occupations needing a license in 1950 to 23 percent today

Most of these are state-level though?

> From zero federal environmental review in 1950 to 26 months today for major projects

That's because they didn't give a shit about the environment in the 50s. They just yeeted nukes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site) and people watched them from the Las Vegas strip. One river caught on fire 14 times holy mackerel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River.

> From 9,700 pages in the Code of Federal Regulations in 1950 to 200,000 pages today.

That doesn't tell us anything. There's just more stuff today that simply didn't exist in 1950.

It's possible the regulation dial has been turned too far the other way. But arguing for going back to 0 regulations is also insanity.