I agree, but there is a role for the EPA to play...
Things like:
Going after companies, paying for and cleaning up Superfund cleanup sites
Helping states coordinate regulations on waterways that cross state lines...
National testing of waterways for cleanliness...
Etc...
20 % of their current budget is PLENTY of money to run a vastly smaller and in control EPA...
“I agree, but there is a role for the EPA to play...
Things like:
Going after companies, paying for and cleaning up Superfund cleanup sites
Helping states coordinate regulations on waterways that cross state lines...
National testing of waterways for cleanliness...
Etc...
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20 % of their current budget is PLENTY of money to run a vastly smaller and in control EPA... “
There is no role for the EPA. For one thing, it was created by Executive Orders in 1970. That should tell you something.
As far as ‘going after companies to cleanup Superfund sites’ you cannot possibly be serious.
Where do I start?
Ok, what about the state being the entity that cleans up? sounds more logical than a federal presence.
Do you happen to know that the worst polluter in the US is actually the federal government? It has done more damage to the environment by far than any other group.
How about the EPA going after the Interior Dept in the Colorado gold mine spill? Won’t happen.
Waterways are now defined by any possible rainfall onto a property that has any movement across a property. Means the EPA has TOTAL control over your land. Think that is beneficial for a free society?
The EPA is a demagogue, not some helper as your note suggests.
It needs to go into the trash-heap.
Perhaps increasing unemployment is another role for EPA to play as well?
“the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan rules could further dent jobs, according to economist Robert Godby of the University of Wyoming’s Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy. His analysis found the plan could reduce employment by 2.5% to 3.2% by 2030, compared with 2012 employment levels, as job loss in coal production would outweigh job gains in the natural-gas sector.”