[Still Thinking]

Yeah, but wasn’t Congressional approval required by the surrender money W to elevate it to cabinet level? (dumbest decision of all time)

If so, then how can you EO it out of existence?

[I got the rope]

people have no idea.

The regulations are flowing out like crazy right now in the federal register.

They touch every industry. I’m reading one right now that has to do with Brick kilns. Obama EPA has basically killed the industry. We will be buying bricks from Mexico if we don’t stop the tsunami of job killing regs.

[SandRat]

Congress didn't create EPA — President Nixon brought it into being by a 1970 executive order. Trump can dismantle it with his own executive order. AND NEEDS TO. ASAP!

[SkyDancer]

I’d like to see him do away with the IRS.

[steve8714]

Eliminating the EPA would allow him to RIF a lot of “True believers”.

[umgud]

There are now four branches of gov’t, the 4th being the Regulatory branch, of which the EPA is the most powerful.

[Jim Noble]

President Nixon brought it into being by a 1970 executive order. Trump can dismantle it with his own executive order.

Yes, he could. But the Executive Branch would still have the responsibility to enforce the laws that caused the creation of the EPA in the first place:

Air
1955: Air Pollution Control Act PL 84-159
1963: Clean Air Act PL 88-206
1965: Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control Act PL 89-272
1966: Clean Air Act Amendments PL 89-675
1967: Air Quality Act PL 90-148

Water
1948: Water Pollution Control Act PL 80-845
1965: Water Quality Act PL 89-234
1966: Clean Waters Restoration Act PL 89-753
1970: Water Quality Improvement Act PL 91-224

Land
1964: Wilderness Act PL 88-577
1968: Wild and Scenic Rivers Act PL 90-542
1970: Wilderness Act PL 91-504

Endangered species
1946: Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act PL 79-732
1966: Endangered Species Preservation Act PL 89-669
1969: Endangered Species Conservation Act PL 91-135

Hazardous waste
1965: Solid Waste Disposal Act PL 89-272
1970: Resource Recovery Act PL 91-512

Other
1947: Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act PL 80-104
1969: National Environmental Policy Act PL 91-190

Nixon created the EPA because competing bureaucracies at Agriculture, Interior, Justice, Commerce, HEW and Labor were falling over each other trying to enforce this incoherent mishmash of unconstitutional laws. Eliminate the EPA and you will just return to the status quo before 1972, and all the watermelons from EPA will be hired by those same cabinet departments listed above and start competing with each other to see who is the most radical.

[WayneS]

Under Obama’s “Waters of the United States” rules. the ditch which drains runoff from my driveway is considered “water of the U.S.”