The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began operating 46 years
ago after former President Richard Nixon proposed it as a way to address
mounting pollution concerns across the country.
EPA celebrated its 46th anniversary Friday, just weeks
before President-elect Donald Trump likely takes the agency in a totally
different direction compared to the last eight years under President
Barack Obama, focusing on clean air and quality instead of global
warming. Not only is Trump looking to roll back Obama-era regulations, the
incoming administration reportedly has plans to fundamentally reform
major decades-old environmental laws: The Clean Air Act and the Clean
Water Act. No doubt, Trump will work to repeal the “waters of the United States”
rule and the Clean Power Plan rule for power plants. But his handlers
suggested the new administration would work with Congress to pursue major legislative changes to stop regulatory overreach...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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Replace the EPA with something else. Replace the Clean Water Act with something else.
Those people need to find a real job in private sector. Look at the national dept for one reason.
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