Never forget that it was a Republican (Nixon) who got this ball rolling.
Someone said by Executive Order. Please correct me if I am wrong on that point.
From Wikipedia;
” On July 9, 1970, citing rising concerns over environmental protection and conservation, President Richard Nixon transmitted Reorganization Plan No. 3 to the United States Congress by executive order, creating the EPA as a single, independent agency from a number of smaller arms of different federal agencies. Prior to the establishment of the EPA, the federal government was not structured to comprehensively regulate environmental pollutants.”
It probably seemed like a good thing at the time but it has grown and gotten completely out of control, both in the number of employees and their power, it should be eliminated and the sooner the better.
In the ‘50s I lived in So CA in a home about 1.5 miles from the San Gabriel Mtns. There were many days in the summer months we could barely see the closest mountain from our neighborhood due to smog, it was terrible and so bad our lungs would actually hurt.
Not all things in the ‘70s that the states and the EPA did were bad, they were responsible for many needed improvements. The problem is that for the last 20 or so years they've gone to the extreme and have had the backing of the enviro wacko movement. They now need to disappear.
Tricky RINO Nixon also recognized Red China, lost the Vietnam War, gave us forced busing, food stamps, and racial quotas for schools and hiring.