Posted on 07/14/2017 6:48:55 PM PDT by mdittmar
WASHINGTON – Working people at the Environmental Protection Agency have dedicated their careers to keeping America’s air clean and water safe. They serve without political agenda and keep their focus on protecting community health for all Americans – now and in the future. But, despite making massive strides in keeping dangerous pollutants out of our drinking water and air, civil servants at the EPA may soon see their work unraveled.
To help combat the narrative being slung by those who want to give polluters free reign, American Federation of Government Employees Local 3911 is asking the American public, “Why do you love the EPA?” in their Love Letters to the EPA contest – open now through September 1, 2017.
The 2018 budget proposed by the Trump Administration is calling for a 31 percent cut to the EPA’s budget, a massive reduction of staff, and the dismantling of services and programs millions of Americans rely on. These proposals, paired with unnecessary rollbacks of life-saving regulations, threaten the existence of the country’s frontline community health defender.
“The EPA has faced intense scrutiny this year as the President has rolled out his plans for the agency,” said AFGE Local 3911 President Antony Tseng, “We want the American people to tell us why they don’t want to see the EPA dismantled, and why they want us to continue to protect our citizens for years to come,” he added.
The contest is open to individuals who are United States citizens, and residents of the United States or a U.S. Territory, who are not employees or former employees of the EPA or their immediate families, and are not members of Local 3911 or their immediate families. Eligible contestants are being asked to submit a video – up to two minutes in length – about why they don’t want to see the President expose future generations to an environment that is hazardous to their health.
“Love Letters to the EPA is your chance to resist the proposed and inadequate federal budget for 2018,” said Tseng. “If your video is the best, the $5,000 first prize is yours. We know that a fully funded EPA protects human health and the environment. Who do you trust to tell you the air and water is safe? More Americans trust the U.S. EPA,” he added.
More information about the Love Letters to the EPA contest can be found on www.afge.org/LL2EPA and by following #LL2EPA on Facebook and Twitter. Winners will be announced in October 2017.
Because the EPA was doing its best to destroy America so the muslim terrorists wouldn’t have to.
/sarcasm off
Uh, cause it could be twice the size it is now?
Thanks to the EPA, my toilet is incapable of flushing away my poop on the first or even second try. This gives me additional opportunities to examine my own poops, many of which are amazing and quite artistic.
If I had an old style high flush style toilets, I would never have had this opportunity. Thanks EPA!
EPA Union destroyed new semi-trucks by routing dirty exhaust back into the engine inflow, where carbon erodes bearings and engine life is reduced to junk.
EPA Union are dirtbags for destroying workers livelihood.
Wrong Question.
Too easy to answer.
Hard to love a useless bureaucracy.
Specially a pig wearing PC lipstick.
This AFGE notice has got to win the “Bullshit of the Year” award if nothing else.
You cannot believe how politically left the EPA leadership has been over the years with two socialists leading it, Carol Browner and Lisa Jackson. Nobody knows what the hell McCarthy believed in but it wasn’t of the conservative bent.
a few EPA officials have been so incompetent that they wouldn’t challenge unsupported or poorly documented CERCLA (Superfund) claims from potential defendants.
They’d just rather pay off than fight.
Notice that every time a union issues a news release or gives a speech they use the terms “working families” or “working people”, as though no one but union members really work!
I don’t think gov’t. employees at any level, being paid with taxpayers’ dollars, should be allowed to belong to a union!
Thank you, EPA, for putting alcohol in the gasoline which damages engines and reduces mileage. And thank you even more for forcing some of us to use winter blended gasoline which also reduces mileage. And then, after you have mandated gasoline which gives us poorer mileage, you demand that manufacturers meet ever stricter mileage standards.
Funny, isn’t it, that you get in trouble if you create a pond, but you also get into trouble if you fill one in.
You can thank the EPA twice!
Two words: Flint, Michigan.
The damage is still huge.
The poisoning of the Animas is but one bone head stunt those at the epa accomplished.
NEVER is anyone who destroys like this are ever charged.
Yeah but they had good intentions? Horse crap. Those responsible for this and so many other absolute destructive actions by gub mint stoopids should be prosecuted.
How many fully automatic weapon did the EPA get? Or do they have to share with NOAA?
Thanks to the EPA I now realize that the rainwater that comes off my roof belongs to the EPA and I have no right to collect it in a rain barrel without a permit.
“millions of Americans rely on”
The suggestion asks ignorant Americans that (a) there is never ever any regulatory overreach by the EPA, (b) all EPA regulations are absolutely necessary and essential, (c) the EPA analysis is never politically biased, always politically neutral, and (d) the EPA is always right and never wrong. Yet the history of the many falsehoods and errors of the EPA is that none of the above can be accepted as true.
The EPA has no gone past a point of doing some good, to where it continually keeps trying to expand its mandate, beyond what is necessary and essential to whatever regulatory overreach it can obtain - always trading on past success as the argument for it.
Please recall the snail darter that was used by the EPA to turn fertile farm land in CA into fallowed fields and financially destroyed the economic lives of families that had farmed the land for generations. It is all one needs to know about the EPA.
I like them when they make people fill in the ponds on their private property or pay huge fines so that they lose their property to the goobermint.
Thanks for all the screwed-up messes you’ve caused to the automotive industry over the years. Some of those were cutting into my paycheck,so I had a personal interest. Now,you can do us one last favor....publish ALL the letters you get;not just the “love letters”.
“I love the EPA because when my neighboring landowner wanted to build a house they declared a mud puddle a wetland. Now I have more privacy to skinny dip in my backyard pool.”
They lost me at “they serve without political agenda”.
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