EPA’s Non-Politicized Science Benefits Americans

A direct challenge to the hardcore enviros who heretofore controlled and corrupted the agency.

H. Sterling Burnett September 13, 2018

President Donald Trump committed to fundamentally transforming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from an agency producing politicized science to one instilling sound scientific standards for research. By doing so, Americans should expect improved environmental and health outcomes.

Currently,regulatory costs top $1.9 trillion annually, which amounts to $14,842 per U.S. household. That’s nearly $15,000 less for Americans to pay for health insurance, medical bills, education expenses, groceries, gasoline, or entertainment. Because the economic and social implications of regulations are profound, the science they are built upon must be impeccable.

Over the last few decades — under Republican and Democratic administrations — EPA formed a cozy relationship with radical environmental activists and liberal academic researchers. With the support of environmental lobbyists who despise capitalism (expressed by consumers’ free choices in the marketplace) EPA bureaucrats, in pursuit of more power and expanded budgets for the agency, funded researchers who, because they were largely dependent on government grants for the majority of their funding, were only too happy to produce results claiming industry was destroying the earth.

Of course, the only way to prevent environmental collapse was more government control of the economy. However, these reports were produced despite the fact poverty and hunger have steadily declined and people are living longer and more productive lives than ever before........To Read More....

My Take -- I enjoyed the article, but I would state that in spite of the early achievements EPA had in cleaning up the air, land and water, that doesn’t change the fact EPA was founded in corruption from the very beginning of it’s creation by President Nixon and it’s first administrator William Ruckelshaus with the direct intent of banning DDT, irrespective of the science. The only true fix for EPA is its elimination since eventually another administration will come and may have a different view of what EPA should be doing. The hard core greenies in the agency will merely hunker down and wait for that to happen, and when it does they’ll come roaring back with a vengeance.