Bill proposed: "The EPA shall terminate on Dec 31st, 2018"

[HockeyBjj]

http://usuncut.com/climate/epa-terminate/

H.R. 861, which was introduced on February 3 by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and cosponsored by Reps. Steven Palazzo (R-Mississippi), Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), and Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) only contains one sentence: “The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”

Damn. I think EPA restrictions have been a little strict but this is not good at all in my opinion. Rivers and air will be ruined with 0 regulations as to how to dispose of waste like emissions

 

[Teppodama]

Seems like its time to move on that startup selling commemorative bottles of clean water and air. Just think, you can eventually pass it on down to your grandchildren as a family heirloom.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I'm 100% in favor of this.

Turn environmental restrictions back to the states. Get rid of the federal bureaucratic bullshit.

 

[Toastytoy]

Good. The federal governemnt is too giant as it is. Hopefully they will terminate more of it

 

[hiphopnazi]

Will something else replace it?

 

[Lead]

Completely dumb and just like the idea of abolishing the IRS. If you want to be taken seriously, don't offer legislation that knocks us back 100 years on environmental standards. Nothing is wrong with arguing where they've gone too far but to believe no federal regulation should occur is garbage.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

Rivers and air will be ruined with 0 regulations as to how to dispose of waste like emissions

Getting rid of the EPA doesn't mean there will be no regulations.

 

[ncordless]

Getting rid of the EPA doesn't mean there will be no regulations.

Just no one to enforce them. Who will enforce the clean air act?

 

[SouthoftheAndes]

Terrible idea. but GOP going to GOP

 

[lts5025]

China doesn't have an EPA. Seems to be working well for them.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Will something else replace it?

The MSM reporting will imply nothing will, but states have their own restrictions and the EPA overrides that.

No more spending tens of thousands of dollars to fight the EPA in the courts because you want to build onto your house, but you can't because your property has a pond on it. Fuck that.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

Just no one to enforce them. Who will enforce the clean air act?

State and local governments, like they have already been doing.

 

[lecter]

Wow that's great.

 

[jk7707]

I'm 100% in favor of this.

Turn environmental restrictions back to the states. Get rid of the federal bureaucratic bullshit.

The EPA was created (along with the passing of the clean air and clean water act) precisely because states were fucking up when it came to regulating industry when it came to the environment.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Don't be surprised if idiots say "What would the founding fathers say about Trump destroying their EPA?!?"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency

The EPA was created in 1970, bitches.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

The EPA was created (along with the passing of the clean air and clean water act) precisely because states were fucking up when it came to regulating industry when it came to the environment.

One bureaucracy on top of another is just an illusion that the problem has been solved. Getting rid of the EPA is not a license to destroy the environment.

 

[TheStruggle]

Good. The federal government needs to have less power and control over our lives. Shit is too corrupt right now

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

On the one hand, commercial pollution standards is absolutely something that Congress can and should be setting. After that the question becomes what exactly does the EPA bring to the table?

 

[GearSolidMetal]

The EPA was created (along with the passing of the clean air and clean water act) precisely because states were fucking up when it came to regulating industry when it came to the environment.

No, that was one of the talking points to sell to the public that an EPA was justified.

There was oil accidents before the EPA, and there has been oil accidents afterward. There's air polution before, and there still is.

 

[Pwent]

EPA has gone way too far, im fine with getting rid of them, as long as state and local governments step up their controls