The EPA would be a great agency if they would scale back their areas of regulation to 1984 levels. For their first 10-15 years, they did great work that improved the quality of life in the USA considerably. Then, they had to expand their reach to stay relevant once the air and water was clean. By 2000 or so, they were desperate and grabbing at anything they could to keep the funding increasing.
Yes, as with so many organizations that gain power. After their original purpose is achieved, they will not decrease, but must increase, by any and all means. Must become more and more powerful, have more staff, bigger budgets, longer reach. True for many org’s that have fulfilled their missions.
“The EPA would be a great agency if they would scale back their areas of regulation to 1984 levels. For their first 10-15 years, they did great work that improved the quality of life in the USA considerably. Then, they had to expand their reach to stay relevant once the air and water was clean. By 2000 or so, they were desperate and grabbing at anything they could to keep the funding increasing.”
THIS, exactly. Everyone seems to be forgetting the dead Lake Erie and the river feeding it that caught on fire. The USSR had no EPA. that’s why there are areas of Russia that will be uninhabitable for hundreds to hundreds of thousands of years. Many believe that the low life expectancy in the USSR is caused first by drinking, then by pollution.
We are WAY into diminishing returns with the EPA as it presently exists.