Things were bad in a lot of places in the U.S. prior to the EPA
Do you know who was partially responsible for cleaning California up?
The EPA and the standards they helped put in place.
Do you know who should have jurisdiction and more teeth, teeth enough to stop DAPL from going close to water supplies?
The EPA
Do you know who should have jurisdiction and more teeth, teeth enough to stop the state of Michigan from poisoning Flint ,Michigan residents?
The EPA
Do you know who wants deny there is even a chance that global warming is happening?
Corporations that pollute at a high rate of speed.
Do you know who profits from unfettered production, who profits from paying no attention at all what's released into the air and into the water?
The one-percent that our potato-faced, bleached blond, trophy-wife-having Cheeto Satan Prez REALLY represents.
Do you know who believes anything the 1% says even as the 1% creates legislation to kill them?
The Faux News watching Cheeto Satan-ettes.
So it should kinda scare you that Cheeto is probably taking steps toward destroying the EPA
Rumored to be from an EPA staffer:
"So I work at the EPA and yeah it's as bad as you are hearing:
The entire agency is under lockdown, the website, facebook, twitter, you name it is static and can't be updated. All reports, findings, permits and studies are frozen and not to be released. No presentations or meetings with outside groups are to be scheduled.
Any Press contacting us are to be directed to the Press Office which is also silenced and will give no response.
All grants and contracts are frozen from the contractors working on Superfund sites to grad school students working on their thesis.
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon. But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."
We are still doing our work, writing reports, doing cancer modeling for pesticides hoping that this is temporary and we will be able to serve the public soon. But many of us are worried about an ideologically-fueled purging and if you use any federal data I advise you gather what you can now.
We have been told the website is being reworked to reflect the new administration's policy.
Feel free to copy and paste, you all pay for the government and you should know what's going on. I am posting this as a fellow citizen and not in any sort of official capacity."
The new administrations policy is likely "We don't need no stinkin EPA telling us how to pollute the planet into an extinction event."
The one-percenters know that they'll be fine no matter what (or so they think).
But the vast majority of the satan-ettes cannot afford to pay for triple filtered, recycled air and quadruple distilled, inverted, reverse osmosis filters on their water. But if they were dumb enough to believe Mexico was going to build a wall, then they'll believe anything -- including the fact that the EPA serves no purpose.
If anything the EPA needs to be strengthened. But Bleached Cheeto sent orders that the EPA is not supposed to be talking about their work and their reports anymore. This should scare you. Cheeto is silencing an agency that has a real function. I figure these are the next steps.
1. Stop the EPA from publishing.
2. Tell the satan-ettes that the EPA isn't doing anything but taking their tax dollars -- which looks true because nothing is being published
3. Weaken or destroy the agency's ability to function at every turn.
4. Those being regulated increase profits by cutting safety corners that the EPA used to enforce.
5. Tax payers won't have their taxes decreased by enough to buy an extra pizza per week but satan-ettes will be a-GRINNING because THEY WON -- while that can't figure out what's wrong with Aunt Becky May.
6. Either the EPA will be blamed or Individual companies are blamed for individual scattered illnesses that are linked to poor water quality or poor air quality.
7. Either the EPA or individual companies are blamed for the subsequent deaths of infants, toddlers and old people (the weakest among us.)
8. Large death toll event = EPA is blamed and destroyed if hasn't been destroyed already. Maybe a new just as weak agency with new acronym is created -- so that we can pretend something is resolved. This death event is treated as a one-off
9. Next Large death toll event = coincidence.
10. repeat steps 6 to 9 until enough people die, maybe somebody you know.
11. Panic
12. The EPA is resurrected under a new name.
I figure this whole cycle should take 20 or 30 years if the democrats continue to be as weak as they have been and no new party emerges. I figure less than 20% of us will be dead of pollution related diseases.
These things happen in cycles.
It's not a problem.
Don't worry.
Be Happy.
Pssst-- there are still areas near the freeway bad enough to make me ill after prolonged exposure. The EPA needs more teeth, not fewer.
In 1991, Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. At the time, Kerry Washington was just 14 years old. But like everyone else, Washington was transfixed by the two days that followed, in which Hill calmly recounted in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee the sexual harassment she claimed to have experienced while working for Thomas a decade prior at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
In 1991, Anita Hill, a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Oklahoma, appeared at the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. At the time, Kerry Washington was just 14 years old. But like everyone else, Washington was transfixed by the two days that followed, in which Hill calmly recounted in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee the sexual harassment she claimed to have experienced while working for Thomas a decade prior at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
