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U.S. EPA Updates Web Sites

posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:07PM   
from the we-can-find-no-longer-find-data-against-our-plans dept.

butthurt writes:

You were warned. Now it begins: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working on changes to its Web properties:

The EPA's extensive climate change website now redirects to a page that says "this page is being updated" and that "we are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt." It also links to a full archive of how the page used to look on Jan. 19, before Trump's inauguration.

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• The Clean Air Act (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Monday May 01 2017, @12:12AM

  by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday May 01 2017, @12:12AM (#502062) Homepage Journal

  Guess whose political party is responsible for that.

  The Clean Air Act [wikipedia.org] was an incredible power grab. It was passed with broad bi-partisan support in 1963. The major amendments (including creation of the EPA, also garnered wide bi-partisan support. This historic government overreach, however, fall squarely on the pinko commie sleaze, led by Richard Nixon, who signed the Clean Air Act, then created the EPA by (unconstitutional) executive order [ontheissues.org] said:

  Our national government today is not structured to make a coordinated attack on the pollutants which debase the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land that grows our food. Indeed, the present governmental structure for dealing with environmental pollution often defies effective and concerted action. Despite its complexity, for pollution control purposes the environment must be perceived as a single, interrelated system. Present assignments of departmental responsibiliti reflect this interrelatedness.

          A far more effective approach to pollution control would:
          Identify pollutants.
          Trace them through the entire ecological chain, observing and recording changes in form as they occur.
          Determine the tot of man and his environment.
          Examine interactions among forms of pollution.
          Identify where in the ecological chain interdiction would be most appropriate.

  In 1990, once again those filthy liberals, like George H.W. Bush and majorities in both houses (Senate: 89-11, and House: 401-21) created more job-killing regulation, just to grab more power for themselves. [epa.gov]

  We need to just bomb the next Democratic National Convention (in 2020) and get rid of of those commie pigs forever. Fucking liberals are destroying everything! Oh, wait.

  --
  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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