This is not a drill – a bill has been draft to “ completely abolish ” the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . Penned by freshman GOP lawgiver Matt Gaetz of Florida , the throwaway will purport to completely dismantle the EPA – the organization responsible for mitigating against pollution , grave climate alteration , and the demolition of America ’s public land – before the final stage of 2018 .
Claiming that small business concern can not keep up with the manifestly overzealous regulations on environmental preservation conjured up by the EPA , he then asks his potential supporters : “ I ask for your support in carry off this abusive and costly agency . ”
To say this is deep distressful is something of an understatement . If there is an takings with humble business truly suffer under too much regularisation , then a argument should be had about how the environment can still be protect while small business owners can be helped out in this manner . Just have all toys out of the pram and doing away with the entire federal agency is deeply ludicrous .
However , it has to be observe that both the White House and Congress are entirely control by the Republican Party , the figure one enemy to environmental saving and the world ’s greatest peddler of clime variety denial . You ’d be hard pressed to find GOP lawmakers that do not invite hefty donations from dodo fuel industries and not coincidently pick at the EPA .
Then , of track , there ’s Trump and his cabinet of anti - scientific fan of speedy “ deregulation ” . The President has pickedScott Pruitt to channelize the EPA , who – fantastically – is an lawyer full general that has spent much of his career helping states to sue the EPA . The lunatics are train over the mental institution .
Within days of take office , the Trump administration alsogagged the federal scientistsat the EPA , among many others , and their funding was immediately frozen . Even if the EPA is n’t dismantled , its financial backing is set to beguttedto the power point where it becomes ananemic authority .
The fearsome thing , though , is that this sort of broadside could theoretically succeed , and there ’s little anyone could do in the GOP - control Congress to stop it . The fact that this note is even being drafted is a horrifying sign of how confident the GOP are in pushing their anti - environmental schedule .
How apace thing have transfer . The EPA was created in 1970 via an executive ordination from Republican President Richard Nixon , lest we block . Throw enough money at certain politicians in states with large fossil fuel reserves , however , and they will merrily throw the planet away for some short - term gain .
[ H / T : Huffington Post ]
