The EPA did good things until they ran out of causes and had to create them from nothing.
Only occasionally went beyond their duty. Of course when they did go off the rails it caused a lot of needless regulation.
Currently they are not needed and cause more harm than good.
Time for them to be eliminated.
There would be a lot more gas stations.
See all the abandoned gas stations along the interstates and highways? EPA regulations put them out of business.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jun/24/regulations-put-squeeze-on-small-gas-stations-epa/
Lots of mines closed or never opened, because of the EPA.
Lots of small businesses never opened because of the cost of EPA regulations and the requirement for “Environmental Impact” studies.
By the time the EPA was created in 1970 most of the heavy lifting of cleaning up the environment had already been done by states and localities.
Pittsburgh was no longer dark at noon, and we no longer poured raw sewage from five cities into Lake Erie.
Grew up at the Chicago-Indiana border. Steel mill country. As a kid thought snow was greyish and whippin dead fish at your siblings on a beach trip to Lake Michigan was normal entertainment.
There was a time when the EPA was needed. But April 22, 1970 is the day the progressives grab the environment and made it an emotional movement. (THE ICE AGE IS COMING!!!!!! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!)
They made it political, emotional and corrupt.
>>The EPA did good things until they ran out of causes and had to create them from nothing.
Bingo! When they’re declaring a rain gully a navigable waterway under Federal regulatory jurisdiction, things have gone completely overboard. And there are many examples.
What we are seeing is massive overregulation for job justification.