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@bronco67 I think the EPA did a great job helping get some major pollution stopped in the USA
There used to be some very nasty stuff being dumped in rivers and landfills. VERY nasty.
But the agency has kind of morphed over the decades (like most bureaucracies do). And now they basically write LAWS. And that is something that shouldn't be happening.
They aren't legislators. They weren't voted in to office. They are not lawmakers.
But they create "regulations" and punish people all the same.
And because the head of it is a political appointee, they are politicized as well.
That's my problem with the EPA.
Like every bureaucracy, it has become too big and too powerful without enough Congressional oversight.
And because it has a warm and fuzzy name "Environmental Protection Agency", it makes it sound like if you say something bad about it...you HATE the environment.
(sort of like they did with The Patriot Act, criticize that and you HATE your country because you're not a "patriot")
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