> “I’m not necessarily in favor of rolling back a lot of federal regulations,” said Ms. Ten Eyck, a Democrat who serves on her local town board. “I’m in favor of applying them intelligently.”
So the apple farmer makes sense, why not do that?
So the apple farmer makes sense, why not do that?
Because "applying intelligently" obviously means "applying them selectively at the discretion of whoever's doing the enforcing".
My interpretation is getting to the same result more efficiently, not selectively applying based on that quote.