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The EPA...Do We Really Want to Abolish it?

What has the EPA ever done for us?

"include: banning the widespread use of the pesticide DDT, which was decimating bald eagles and other birds and threatening public health; achieving significant reductions in sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that were polluting water sources via acid rain; changing public perceptions of waste, leading to innovations that make use of waste for energy creation and making new products; getting lead out of gasoline; classifying secondhand smoke as a known cause of cancer, leading to smoking bans in indoor public places; establishing stringent emission standards for pollutants emitted by cars and trucks; regulating toxic chemicals and encouraging the development of more benign chemicals; establishing a national commitment to restore and maintain the safety of fresh water, via the Clean Water Act; promoting equitable environmental protection for minority and low-income citizens; and increasing public information and communities’ “right to know” what chemicals and/or pollutants they may be exposed to in their daily lives...."

Environmental Enforcer: How Effective Has the EPA Been in Its First 40 Years? - Scientific American
 
Redundant links in an effort to make it seem like it happens more often. And some of the blocks are temporary pending further hearings.

At least he tries, instead of linking the main page of the IPCC like you do.

You're a hypocrite!
 
Go here:

https://www.regulations.gov/


Just do yourself a favor and be prepared to be shocked by what you learn about the EPA, as well as all the other regulations government agencies have passed, or are under consideration.

Since you read it, do me a favor and tell me how many regulations we have to live with. I am like the man who quit drinking after he visited a brewery and saw they were making beer faster than he could drink it. The government is making regulations faster than I can read them. Faster than you can read them, too.

I recall when Congress signed the 2,000 page Obamacare bill we suddenly had over 10,000 pages of regulations. No, I'll admit I can't read faster than thousands of liberal bureaucrats can write. So tell me, at the time the webpage was made, how many regulations were there?
 
I am always amazed at the ignorance of those who do not think like me :) Seriously, though, when it comes to support fot abolishing the EPA, I have to ask, Are people really that stupid?

bensozia: Before the EPA I: Air Pollution


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Gary

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As we see in response to the ongoing poisoned water crisis in Flint:

1. Some Americans believe that a state's or corporation's "right" to pollute exceeds a citizens right to clean air and water.
2. Some states are institutionally incapable of protecting the latter set of rights.

Thus, until all fifty states choose to adequately protect those rights, we will need the EPA.
 
Um, nobody has claimed every EPA regulation is holy and blameless.

However, there absolutely are people who want to eliminate the EPA.

 
Yeah, how dare anyone question anything about the EPA. It a holy and blameless govt agency with no political agenda at all.

So why exactly is improving the EPA not a better option than abolishing it?
 
Since you read it, do me a favor and tell me how many regulations we have to live with. I am like the man who quit drinking after he visited a brewery and saw they were making beer faster than he could drink it. The government is making regulations faster than I can read them. Faster than you can read them, too.

I recall when Congress signed the 2,000 page Obamacare bill we suddenly had over 10,000 pages of regulations. No, I'll admit I can't read faster than thousands of liberal bureaucrats can write. So tell me, at the time the webpage was made, how many regulations were there?

When I provided the link earlier, I did a quick check of just the EPA. Over the last 12 months, they adopted over 650 new regulations of various types and importance. Over the last 5 years, it's in the many thousands. Some are innocuous bits of bureaucratic BS, and some have major impacts on citizens. I can assure you, the mountain of regulations is so large, and so convoluted, I believe it would be impossible for anyone to know the details of all of them.

I believe they count on that.
 
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