The EPA is not bad enough to be abolished. I remember what the air and rivers looked like in 1970. But it needs to be scaled back, by law, to its responsibilities and reach that it had in about 1980. (Putting on my asbestos and Nomex underwear now for the angry attacks.)
Yes it is and then some.
Dirty air and rivers can be cleaned, EPA commie scum cannot.
In its present incarnation, and with its present powers, it is.
Back when they cleaned up streams and made LA stop being smog-covered, ok. I even liked those Woodsy the Owl commercials.
But the monstrosity that it has grown into must be killed.
And the fields must be salted (provided we file a EPA 102.2 Environmental Impact Statement, conduct a WFO Saline Runoff analysis, get three Orders of Chemical Release from local, state and Federal authorities, monitor the field for the mandatory 7 year period, and provide annual NTSIP-EPA Hazardous Substance Monitoring reports.)
I, too, remember the smog in my city back then...when ny city was bustling with industry making goods to sell to Americans. Now thanks to regulators, my hometown has clean air and captains of industry packed up and moved to other countries.
Dirty water can be solved via the court system. Those industries dumping waste into rivers used to be prosecuted under laws already on the books.
Capitalism requires government to stay out of the economy except to adjudicate lawsuits.
Asbestos? Aren’t you in violation of EPA regs?