Like I said, it's not over regulation you crybout for, you just want the one's MAGA says need to go. Sharecroppers going to war so their betters can own slaves that compete with them at he cotten exchange.
You named a situation that wasn't worth my time because if it fails on its own, the regulations won't make a difference. I won't fight for something if I doubt that more or fewer regulations would make a difference. Dying a natural death is appropriate. And it is based on something my wife uses now and then... the Serenity Prayer. Let me fight those fights I can win, let me accept the results of fights I cannot win, and let me be smart enough to recognize the difference. I can't make it clearer than that. I don't give a rat's patootie about the wind farm regs.
I don't know all of the regulations I would whack. But I know that for the last decade plus, and probably longer, Executive Branch agencies have taken advantage of the Chevron Deference Policy to make new rules not originally declared by Congress. The Liberal argument was that the Executive Branch people were the experts and therefore should be the ones making the rules. Do you know the Harvard Law of Experts? If you take all of the experts in a particular topic and lay them head to foot, the resulting line of people STILL wouldn't reach a significant conclusion. As to "experts in economics", if I were being generous enough to include you in the list of expert economists, your group wouldn't reach a conclusion either. (Nothing personal in that - it's a statistical probability thing.)
I don't know how many "rules by
fiat" were made by the agencies because they were being made faster than I could keep up. Thanks to a good SCOTUS ruling in the Loper-Bright case, those rules can be more easily challenged. We might actually get rid of a few rules.
Another thing I know, from personal observation, is that even for military situations, there are literally HUNDREDS of rules that apply on a day-to-day basis. Working for the Navy Reserve as I did, I had to know the rules over document creation and handling (including the definition of a "government document"), document storage, and document disposition. I had to understand rules about data accumulation, storage, preservation, and retirement. I had to understand the different rules about Personally Identifying Information, HIPAA Information, unclassified data, sensitive but unclassified data (SBU, which differs from simple unclassified data), and the secret, top secret, and TS/compartmented data. We had rules regarding what I could and couldn't do as a system admin for an SBU personnel system and an SBU system for tracking system patch levels. And that was for one military office. I understand regulations and I'll thank you to stop assuming that I don't know anything. The problem is that NO ONE knows how many regulations apply at various levels. But I know that for efficiency's sake, we could do with a few less here and there - and never miss them.