“Please, Donald, get elected and close this rogue department”
Congress passed the laws that the EPA is enforcing. If the EPA had not been created by Nixon’s executive order, there would be four or five mini-EPAs at Commerce, Interior, Labor, Agriculture, and Justice trying to enforce Congress’s absurd “environmental “ laws.
Air
1963: Clean Air Act PL 88-206
1965: Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act PL 89-272
1966: Clean Air Act Amendments PL 89-675
1967: Air Quality Act PL 90-148
1970: Clean Air Act Extension PL 91-604
Water
1965: Water Quality Act PL 89-234
1966: Clean Waters Restoration Act PL 89-753
1970: Water Quality Improvement Act PL 91-224
Land
1964: Wilderness Act PL 88-577
1968: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act PL 90-542
1970: Wilderness Act PL 91-504
Endangered species
1966: Endangered Species Preservation Act PL 89-669
1969: Endangered Species Conservation Act PL 91-135
1972: Marine Mammal Protection Act PL 92-522
Hazardous waste
1965: Solid Waste Disposal Act PL 89-272
1970: Resource Recovery Act PL 91-512
Other
1969: National Environmental Policy Act PL 91-190
1972: Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act PL 92-516
All of these laws articulate unachievable fantasy goals, and charge the President with creating their environmental utopia through regulation.
Now, of course, when you elect Marxists to high office, the regulations they choose to pursue will be worse.
BUT
THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE EPA. THE PROBLEM IS THE LAWS.
Well, suits could be brought according to the laws, but the EPA is completely out of control. They are practically an environmental religious police.
Your point is valid, though. My next recommendation would be the sunsetting of most laws, unless reviewed and renewed, or explicitly decreed as of indefinite life on passage... which should take a super-majority.
And, while I’m in the mood, I’d also like to see “truth in legislative packaging,” so that laws contain clauses only germane to the title, and riders are forbidden.
You are correct about the laws being awful.... but it is also true that the EPA and other agencies create 1000s of regulations which have not been given adequate oversight by congress... who refuses to do so. At least with laws there is some kind of recourse, but with regulations the options of recourse are limited.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE EPA
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You write a very informative and spot on article and then state “the problem is not the EPA”.
I respectfully disagree with that statement. This is roughly analogous to what we heard at Nuremberg from German Officers.....”well Judge, I was just following orders, so it was not my fault I blew that guys head off”.
Some of the rules these Enviro Nazi’s pass and unlawful, un-constitutional policies they enforce destroy whole families LITERALLY. I know. It took me and my family 20 years to recover from 1 legal attack by enviros. One family member never recovered and did not live out her full life.
Out West, whole industries are devastated allegedly because of tiny fish. The Hammonds, father and son, are wrongfully in prison because EPA and it’s cabal of fellow transgressing enviro groups, prosecutors, judges and bought off politicians want to steal their 700,000 acre ranch for a park, or to sell it’s surface and underground minerals to foreign investors, just because they can!
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, I see your point about the LAWS and the fact that our “legislatures” fail us, for the ten thousandth time. But, I would hate for that valid point to obfuscate even slightly that many EPA personnel are guilty of crimes and should be prosecuted. I understand the Nuremberg courtroom is still available. I would supply the rope.
As long as we are discussing blame, why stop with “laws” and legislators? It’s the American people and conservatives in particular that have allowed these snakes to bite and sometimes kill people for decades.