| | | 40th Anniversary of the Clean Air Act | US EPA
Cleaning up polluted air has been a needed and worthwhile endeavor. I lived in LA for about ten years, back when the smog was really nasty. Although they will never have pristine air quality there, for several reasons (population and geography), it's much better now than it was.
The problem with the EPA, other than the fact that it's grown into a huge cumbersome bureaucracy, is that it's gotten too big for its britches. ICE powered vehicles are essentially pollution free now, so the regulations have shifted from controlling pollution to attacking carbon dioxide (a non polluting, colorless, odorless plant food that's a small but essential element in the atmosphere, and without which, life on earth would not exist).
When the EPA goes beyond its original mandate and attacks the clean efficient energy sources that modern civilization requires, along with other such nonsense such as classifying and regulating mud puddles as navigable waterways, then it needs to be spanked and have its plug pulled, which, thankfully, the Supreme Court has been doing.
The current attacks on farmers and fertilizer going on around the world is literally playing with fire, and not of the "global warming" variety, either. Dangerous times ahead.. |
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