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Thanks, Nixon.

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

1 posted on 12/07/2009 1:12:37 PM PST by markomalley
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The destruction of America proceeds apace.


2 posted on 12/07/2009 1:15:08 PM PST by onedoug
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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
 
 

3 posted on 12/07/2009 1:18:38 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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Open revolt to a sitting gubamint that relies on rigged science to achieve its goals?

Coming Soon to a Nation near you.


4 posted on 12/07/2009 1:18:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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“The hacked e-mails change nothing”......

Of course! The environmental hacks continue on their merry way!


5 posted on 12/07/2009 1:19:26 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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Thanks, Nixon

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.

6 posted on 12/07/2009 1:20:34 PM PST by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: markomalley

Translation: The truth means nothing if it counters our efforts toward a socialist “utopia”.

Typical liberal.


8 posted on 12/07/2009 1:21:18 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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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.


9 posted on 12/07/2009 1:24:36 PM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid)
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Show me somebody that says climategate changes nothing, and I'll show you a statist that couldn't care less about carbon or climate, and someone who is not just a statist, but a worldist as well.

Here is a woman that says climategate changes nothing:

Here is what a Cruminal in Hopenchangen looks like:

Another warmist doing her thing:


11 posted on 12/07/2009 1:25:00 PM PST by C210N (A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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Is outright fraud consisteent with the obligations of such a federal office holder?


12 posted on 12/07/2009 1:27:15 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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EPA chief: The hacked e-mails change nothing

Translation: "The sky is still falling!"

13 posted on 12/07/2009 1:27:31 PM PST by CedarDave (FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
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Anybody think this would not be brought up by MSM if GOP was in power?


15 posted on 12/07/2009 1:31:49 PM PST by bestintxas
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I recommend going to the link & reading the comments. Very entertaining.


17 posted on 12/07/2009 1:42:40 PM PST by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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EPA chief: The hacked e-mails change nothing

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.

18 posted on 12/07/2009 1:43:15 PM PST by I cannot think of a name
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“She said the controversial messages dealt only with a tiny fraction of the strong evidence of global warming.”

Yep. Like the actual temperatures.


19 posted on 12/07/2009 1:44:15 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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Another Kenyan communist speaks...

22 posted on 12/07/2009 1:50:28 PM PST by y6162 (uish..)
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“There is nothing in the hacked e-mails that undermines the science upon which this decision is based..."

Well, no - not if you refuse to even read them. :)

23 posted on 12/07/2009 1:52:16 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("If you cannot pick it up and run with it, you don't really own it." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To enact policy based upon lies is in itself a lie. If the POTUS (or TOTUS) thinks he can enact such policy, we can initiate impeachment procedings if he does. This is because he knows very well that CO2 has not been proven to be the menace that the fradulent sciences says it is. He would be guilty of high crimes and misdemeaners.
24 posted on 12/07/2009 2:02:29 PM PST by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Marxism.)
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To: markomalley

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! I am Algore, the great and powerful!”


25 posted on 12/07/2009 2:08:55 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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You know, our parents were right!

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!

26 posted on 12/07/2009 2:17:10 PM PST by free from tyranny
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Environmentalism is a religion... no, a CULT.

Inconvenient things like facts are irrelevant.

27 posted on 12/07/2009 2:19:00 PM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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