I suggest those who dislike the EPA live downwind of a chemical plant, eat un-inspected foods in restaurants un-inspected, move near a dumping ground of chemicals, buy their drugs on the internet, live next to a busy highway, buy cheap home products from China, and after doing so, tell us how it is. Oh and those interested make sure your beneficiary does the opposite. For those of us who have lived a bit longer, we hope it is you and not us who have to go back to the good old days.
"It's hard to argue the positive impact that the EPA has had on our environment. Anyone who was alive in the 60's and 70's and remembers what it was like to live in an industrial area can certainly attest to that.
I remember the smokestacks that spewed tons of smoke into the air, causing a brown layer of smog that hovered over our city. I remember how, one by one, the community beaches and swimming areas were shut down because of the industrial waste being dumped into the bay and rivers. It was so bad that the Chesapeake is still struggling to recover to this day. I remember seeing car after car out on the highway, spitting out filthy exhaust fumes. The EPA helped change all that."
Out Of The Fog: Defunding The EPA: Bad Policy or Good Idea?
another progressive who doesnt have the ability to think on the margin. If the air was 99.99999% pure, the k00ks would still be bitching that the conservatives were trying to poison the world!!!
The goals of the EPA are far, far, far diffrerent than they were in the 1970's. The founding fathers would shut this fraudulent agency down so fast, the k00ks heads would be swimming.
Here is a photo of what imo is the most beautiful car ever built. A 1955 Mercedes Gull Wing 300sl.
Minimum you can buy one for in 2012 in pristine shape? 250K. Now imagine the EPA as a car judge at a classic car show. Theyd take a walk around and tell the owner, "Fuck you......I see a litte hideous smudge right here. Take 100K off the price of the car!!". The EPA manufacture "environmental dangers" on a daily basis..........only the hopelessly duped dont get it.
The EPA is a fascist agency with a fucked up agenda........an agenda that kills the middle class in America.
Check out all the shit they have been doing in just the past year and will do through election day..........
Next up from the EPA:
• In the remaining weeks of 2011, the agency will finalize rules regulating emissions for boilers and solid waste incinerators and to curb mercury and toxic emissions from power plants. The EPA also will move forward with automakers and the Department of Transportation to set new miles-per-gallon standards for automobiles and lower the amount of sulfur in gasoline.
• On Jan. 1, the agency’s rule governing air pollution that blows across state lines will take effect, amid a flurry of paperwork in a massive lawsuit driven by 45 petitioners. The lawsuit was brought by states beholden to more stringent requirements and utilities that will have to implement them. The EPA is joined in the case by downwind cities and states that will benefit from the new air pollution limits, along with environmentalists and some other utilities.
• April 3, the EPA will finalize air standards for wells that use hydraulic fracturing to access natural gas and for oil and natural gas processing plants.
• The EPA will set greenhouse gas emission standards for fossil-fueled power plants and petroleum refineries.
• Under review at the White House Office of Management and Budget are rules to reconsider air emission standards at chemical manufacturing plants, and a review of risk and technology for emission standards for shipbuilding and ship repair.
• The EPA plans to decide during the summer how to regulate coal ash — the byproduct that is often reused in housing products but has been the subject of national attention after some dangerous spills from huge retention ponds.
• In July, the agency also will finalize a rule for water discharge permits for cooling towers that keep power plants and manufacturing facilities from overheating. Such towers pull water from rivers and streams, posing dangers to fish and fish eggs that become caught in intake screens. The issue prompted a Supreme Court ruling that says the EPA may consider costs and benefits in its regulations because the Clean Water Act does not explicitly forbid it.
• The EPA has agreed to judicially mandated deadlines for acting on plans to cut haze-causing pollution from coal-fired power plants in 45 states. The deadlines run from this December to November 2012.
• Meanwhile, several rules are caught up in an ongoing lawsuit over EPA’s climate “endangerment finding” in which the agency determined that carbon dioxide emissions threaten public health and the environment. The finding became an underpinning of EPA climate regulations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral arguments for that case Feb. 28-29, and many expect that the case will be decided in the summer.
Read more:
EPA poised to roll out 2012 agenda - Erica Martinson - POLITICO.com
EPA poised to roll out 2012 agenda - Erica Martinson - POLITICO.com
The environmental nutters think this is about the environment
And we are just one of dozens of similar organizations in the state who provide the same services to over 25,000 people. Our budgets are getting slammed!!!
