The official birthday of EPA is December 2, 1970.
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The Nixon Administration, although preoccupied with an unpopular war and a recession-ridden economy, took some stopgap action on the environmental front in 1969. In May, President Nixon had set up a Cabinet-level Environmental Quality Council as well as a Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality. His critics charged that these were largely ceremonial bodies, with almost no real power.
Stung by these charges, President Nixon appointed a White House committee in December 1969 to consider whether there should be a separate environmental agency. The President had already asked Litton founder, Roy L. Ash, to take a sweeping look at organizational problems throughout the government.
It was at just this time that Congress sent to the President a remarkable bill known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis)--looking back at the "Environmental Decade" in 1980--called NEPA "the most important piece of environmental legislation in our history." It is easy to see why.
A tone of high-minded idealism pervades this statute. NEPA's stated purposes were:
* "To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment."
* "To promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man."
* "To enrich our understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation."
To further these ends, NEPA called for the formation of a Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to give the President expert advice on environmental matters. The CEQ was also charged with reviewing Environmental Impact Statements, which were now required of all federal agencies planning projects with major environmental ramifications.
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In sending Reorganization Plan No. 3 to Congress on July 9, the President admitted that he had first been reluctant to propose setting up a new independent agency. Eventually, however, he was convinced by all "the arguments against placing environmental protection activities under the jurisdiction of one or another of the existing departments and agencies."
These arguments were twofold: first, the primary mission of each existing department would bias any decisions it made on a government-wide basis concerning the environment; second, the same factors might raise questions about the objectivity of any existing department as a standard-setting body for other agencies and departments.
To avoid such pitfalls, President Nixon called for "a strong, independent agency." The mission of this "Environmental Protection Agency" would be to:
* Establish and enforce environmental protection standards.
* Conduct environmental research.
* Provide assistance to others combatting environmental pollution.
* Assist the CEQ in developing and recommending to the President new policies for environmental protection.
Source: The Birth of the EPA
The destruction of America proceeds apace.
Open revolt to a sitting gubamint that relies on rigged science to achieve its goals?
Coming Soon to a Nation near you.
“The hacked e-mails change nothing”......
Of course! The environmental hacks continue on their merry way!
Given his role in creating socialist agencies like the EPA, I've always wondered why the liberals still hate him with such passion. The EPA along with the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Air Act (now declaring C02 as a pollutant!) have had far-reaching effects on our form of government.
Translation: The truth means nothing if it counters our efforts toward a socialist “utopia”.
Typical liberal.
Relax, it’s just pasrt of the plan to destroy our economy and enrich our enemies.
The people in charge are nuts. The GOP would do itself a favor to just say that plainly, because the people already know.
Here is a woman that says climategate changes nothing:
Here is what a Cruminal in Hopenchangen looks like:
Another warmist doing her thing:
Is outright fraud consisteent with the obligations of such a federal office holder?
Translation: "The sky is still falling!"
Anybody think this would not be brought up by MSM if GOP was in power?
I recommend going to the link & reading the comments. Very entertaining.
No dear, you’re the nothing. Another worthless “head” in a position only because of political connections. Left to your own talents you would find yourself in the household or custodial industries.
“She said the controversial messages dealt only with a tiny fraction of the strong evidence of global warming.”
Yep. Like the actual temperatures.
Well, no - not if you refuse to even read them. :)
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! I am Algore, the great and powerful!”
They warned us that our brains would turn to mush.
We laid there in front of the tube watching Gilligan's Island, Batman, The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, Leave it to Beaver.....etc. etc. etc. Yeah right, we shot back as we rolled our eyes.
How else could you possibly explain a The United States Of America decreeing that CO2 is a public danger?
Have we lost our minds? NO!!
Our minds never developed!
Inconvenient things like facts are irrelevant.