“Since when does the EPA give a rats patootie about what the majority of Americans think?”
They have comment periods that anyone, even you and I, can input to. In addition they’ll have face-to-face public meetings all over the USA and you can go, ask for clarifications, and express your concerns, while looking them in the eye.
I have been to the F2F meetings. Typically there are less than 30 people who show up. They DO pay attention, do publish comments, but if it looks to them like nobody cares nothing changes.
Now if we can get 300 people to show up at each comment meeting, and 30000 to put in written comments, things will be different. The tools for us to communicate are there but we don’t use them, most of us don’t even READ the regulations.
So where do they (the EPA) advertise this to let people know the when, where and what about these meetings and comments?
I really wish I could say that I have ever been to such a meeting where it served any purpose other than to permit the Government to say they took comments from X number of people at the meeting before they do whatever it was the people who showed up were overwhelmingly against, but I can't.
It only legitimizes their crap.
That isn't saying don't show up, by all means, do, and take the kids and grandchildren. Let them see and understand and get riled. One kid saying "That's not fair!" or "Grandpa, that's wrong!" can make them squirm, and perhaps will someday have some effect.
And teach your kids to shoot, too. They will likely need to know how someday.
I always assume that any opportunity provided by the Feral Government for us to make comments or give input are really thinly disguised mechanisms to gather the names of people they will categorize as potential domestic terrorists.