It the EPA stayed to its original mission from Nixon, it would not be such a bad idea.
The original intention was regulating deadly chemical disposal and cleaning up hazardous waste sites.
“It the EPA stayed to its original mission from Nixon, it would not be such a bad idea...The original intention was regulating deadly chemical disposal and cleaning up hazardous waste sites.”
There was an Original Star Trek episode where an old friend of Kirk created a Nazi dictatorship on some planet. The guy was a drugged out figurehead when Kirk finally found him ‘running’ the planet. He sobered a bit and said told Kirk that he just wanted the good aspects of the Nazism - the economic turnaround, the efficiency, etc. But the moral of the story was that you cannot have Nazism without terrible abuses.
You are TOTALLY RIGHT about the original need for the EPA (although neither of us will get much sympathy here for that view). The cars STUNK, and rivers were literally burning. It took the EPA only 10 years to cut emissions (for new cars) by 90%. It took another 25 years or so, but we got another 90% of the remainder cleaned up - a total of 99%. Honda once had an advertisement stating that the air going out of their tailpipes was cleaner than the air going into their engines, at least in Southern California on high pollution days.
But the challenge becomes what always seems to happen when liberals have a chance at taking power...they use the mechanisms of the EPA and other regulatory agencies to DESTROY INDUSTRY. Maybe Trump can get enough good judges and get the enabling laws re-written so these abuses don’t happen, at least for a few decades.
“...The original intention was regulating deadly chemical disposal and cleaning up hazardous waste sites.”
Pare the EPA down to that, and put it under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.
Then get rid of the remainder of the EPA.