Once the EPA is abolished, the economy (especially the oil and gas industry) will take off like gangbusters. We can finally install the refineries that this country needs.
I can see a legitimate role for some limited type of federal laws and enforcement authority with regard to hazardous materials and substances.
We don’t want to be like China. We can’t have factories spilling SO2 into the atmosphere, or polluting our waters.
Of course, the EPA is so out of control and over the top that it needs to be gutted. But if it’s shut down, we will need to have some sort of agency or authority to handle interstate environmental issues, and also to protect interstate and coastal waters.
At least 1/2 of all the govt. agencies could be abolished or consolidated with no harm done to the nations well being.
Can I get an AMEN!
We need to keep the EPA for one reason and one reason only...
Manage the superfund to clean up toxic sites...
Nothing else...
The Case for Ending the EPA
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/6065-the-case-for-ending-the-epa
EPA: Time to Abolish, Not Merely Restrict
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/19745-epa-time-to-abolish-not-merely-restrict
EPA v. USA
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/17170-epa-v-usa
There is a legitimate place in government for the EPA. If it returns to its original mission and stays within the bounds of law. I don’t want a return to massive smog and toxic waste being dumped in our waterways. Yeah I know the EPA did that in Colorado. I think care for the environment is important and can be done in such a way that it is not in opposition to Conservative value.
Let the states do all the EPA stuff. Smaller federal government is a good thing. The beauty of states having this responsibility (and power) is its residents can say they’ve had it with that state and move to one more in line with their way of thinking so the control freaks can all move to states like CA, NY, and WA and conservatives can go to the states who govern in a common sense way.
EPA need to be refunded along with education and transportation. A freshman congressmen who is proposing legislation - was it ever done. This freshmen congressmen is helping to drain the swamp...