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All the crap seems to be rising to the surface very conveniently as Donald Trump walks up with a skimmer.

And there will still be people who will call the advent of Donald Trump to be blind coinki-dink.

I disagree with you that the EPA needs to go. Instead, I would change this to the EPA needs to be gutted of lawyers, activists and bureaucrats. Use the original EPA as a template for mission and organization.

The EPA at founding was heavy on technology and engineering, in other words it was solution based. The slide into lala land began under Jimmy Carter using the Clean Air Act to push some really dumb, non-economic changes on the power industry. It was a failure. The EPA’s long term response was to phase out engineering in favor of litigation and bureaucratic beat down of a thousand cuts.

So, here we are now with this monstrosity. Exhorbinent costs supporting a loony tune EPA via taxes, edicts instead of achievable win-win solutions and a similarly gutted industrial environmental intellectual base that has also gone to regulatory minutiae instead of leading edge engineering that is reasonable and practical.

Off the soap box now.