An agency that produces absolutely nothing, and instead spends 99% of its budget and time aggressively going after Americans and their property. They see themselves as gods.
President Trump’s plans are helping to fuel the glorious market rallies.
The downsizing should be 100%. This agency does nothing useful.
It is a good idea to get rid of those agencies that are devastating the people.
This is an extremely important article.
cut the people, but don’t cut the budget yet...use it to fix the waterways the EPA recently wrecked
Perhaps someday I will get a pot scrubber dishwasher back?
and a washing maching with MY CHOICE of wash and rinse temperatures???
Do away with the EPA and hand over the few useful and necessary functions to the Dept. of Interior with greatly reduced staffing.
Pass legislation to prohibit any agency from creating any regulations that will be in force for more than 6 months without congressional approval.
15,000 people? 3,000 people for every single state in the union, all programmed like little Communist missiles to attack private property rights? I’d say it was PAST time to stop this.
An interesting sidebar here re “environmental justice”.
The term, like that of “social justice”, was bandied around since the 1980’s but for one group, the Communist Party USA, “environmental justice” became one of its’ newest targets since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly put them out of a job.
It was written extensively about by Virginia Bodine, a Washington State party leader as well as pushed by a DC local red named Damu Smith (close to the CPUSA, worked for the Natural Resources Defense Committee at some point in time, led the CP’ support efforts for the Marxist guerillas in So. Africa, Mozambique, Angola, etc, and showed up in nearly every major communist united front in the 80’s and 90’s).
The angle was that oil refineries and other polluting chemical industries were placed where poor people (i.e, black people) lived on purpose. Most of the siting was actually due to the land being next to water bodies for transportation (which is where many poor people did live because they couldn’t afford to live elsewhere).
The oil companies did pollute many of these areas (I’ve worked on a number of major clean-up cases, and some of them had a “so-what” attitude to this pollution).
The reds in the environmental movement made this into a nationwide propaganda effort and ignored the major US/EPA efforts to clean up these sites, esp. the CERCLA superfund ones, but it took many years to do so.
Today strict environmental regulations make it nearly impossible for any deliberate pollution to happen near residential neighborhoods but that is not to say that it won’t happen with existing facilities.
That is where a rational, pragmatically led EPA can play a significant role in safeguarding the health of the people and the land/water by providing scientifically sound guidance to industries. However, their goal should not be to prevent the drilling for oil on better lands or even coal mining that uses better cleanup/anti-pollution techniques.
Let’s stick with the sound concept of everyone working together to keep the environment as clean as possible, all the while realizing that people need work, oil, gas, energy, etc. that “green” programs simply cannot provide.