Go to any major city in China and ask the first person you see if they think people should be able to pollute as much as they want.
The sad thing is that many people in major Chinese cities don't care much about the pollution, even if they get sick eventually. It's considered just the price of economic development. I think the lesson might be to take anyone who believes in abolishing the EPA to a major Chinese city and see what they think after that. I was in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, last summer, and it made Beijing's pollution look mild--visibility on a clear sunny day was generally bad, and the air everywhere literally stunk.