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To hell with safe drinking water standards and enforcement, nuclear waste water disposal regulations, stopping toxic waste dumping, safe working environments, and clean air. Who needs it?
Settle down, Francis... We're still going to have clean air and water and safe working environments.
Settle down, Francis... We're still going to have clean air and water and safe working environments.
Good grief.
Not without the EPA.
There is literally no one else capable of doing that job. Private companies and state legislators have massive incentives to pollute. Localities have no authority, and the judicial system is a joke.
Y'all don't know what you're getting yourselves into.
Not exactly man.. The EPA was a consolidation of personnel back in the 70's. During it's infancy it was 8,000 personnel, swelled in 2011 and has retracted since.
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) "battled Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality behind the scenes for at least six months over whether Flint needed to use chemical treatments to keep lead lines and plumbing connections from leaching into drinking water" and "did not publicize its concern that Flint residents' health was jeopardized by the state's insistence that such controls were not required by law".[90] In 2015, EPA water expert Miguel A. Del Toral "identified potential problems with Flint's drinking water in February, confirmed the suspicions in April and summarized the looming problem" in an internal memo[91] circulated on June 24, 2015.[90]
Despite these "dire warnings" from Del Toral,[92] the memo was not publicly released until November 2015, after a revision and vetting process.[90] In the interim, the EPA and the Michigan DEQ engaged in a dispute on how to interpret the Lead and Copper Rule. According to EPA Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman, the EPA pushed to immediately implement corrosion controls in the interests of public health, while the Michigan DEQ sought to delay a decision on corrosion control until two six-month periods of sampling had been completed.[
Um no. What we need are citizens who have more access to their own local governments and this include environmental concerns. I am all for an EPA that exposes local governments which by your own admission it did not do. Behind the scenes? How cozy.
The EPA should act more like journalists and less like police. Tell the locals what's going on immediately. If the locals are happy to drink poison then well, OK, but I doubt it.
However a lot of this is besides the point. The EPA should be wiped out and rebuilt. Its an old bureaucracy that needs to die at the end of its life cycle. It is clearly in the phase of it life cycle of merely preserving itself.
There are a lot of government agencies that need to be slimmed down. He needs to look at all the waste that happens and stop the hemorrhage somewhere.
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