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Michael Regan and the Reconstruction of the U.S. EPA
The next four years should undo the damage of the past four years and put America back on the path of effective environmental policy.
The next four years should undo the damage of the past four years and put America back on the path of effective environmental policy.
We need to ensure that during these next few years we rebuild the American consensus behind environmental protection.
If we can wed the genius of free enterprise to the goal of a less polluted planet, we might find a pathway back to an American environmental consensus.
While hiding inconvenient facts may not be the intention behind EPA’s COVID-19 policy, it could very well be its effect.
While the proposal boosts NASA’s budget to explore other worlds, what about the one we’ve already got?
Building infrastructure, providing emergency services, maintaining social safety nets, and ensuring public safety require an open and capable government.
We are at the end of two years witnessing the awful spectacle of an Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department more interested in exploiting natural resources than protecting them. But starting today, the unified control of the national government by President Donald Trump and his enablers has ended.
Tuesday’s election could be key in deciding federal environmental protection moving forward.
Government’s first priority should not be to promote business interests, but to protect the lives and health of its people.
The EPA’s decision to lower fuel efficiency standards could affect more than just greenhouse gas emissions.