PART TWO

Obviously before reading Part Two you will want to scroll down and read Part One.

I've decided to list the decisions that have been made by the Trump EPA in order of their importance.
You might not agree with the order but I'm asking you to weight the entire list and then tell me that these decisions aren't decisions that go against everything that most administrations, since 1970, have attempted to achieve in order that our air, water and renewable energy needs get addressed.

The safety of the American people was the reason the EPA was formed.

When business and corporate America were allowed to do whatever they wanted without the slightest concern for environmental issues: 

* Rivers and lakes were polluted and ground water was contaminated by pesticides.  
*Air pollution levels reached numbers that were clogging great cities
* Above ground Nuclear tests were conducted long after they knew the dangers of  radioactive fall out.
* The single issue of ongoing denial of tobacco dangers by tobacco companies is one for the books.

Now let's see how Donald J. Trump has gone out of his way to once more let Big Business and Corporate America have their way.

Appointing someone who had sued the EPA 14 times on behalf of the Coal Industry as the head of the EPA is the first action in question.  Scott Pruitt proved to be not only bad at his job but he set a new bar for being weird.


In March of 2017 Mr. Trump made a big deal of having Dow Chemical leaders in his office to sign a bill allowing them to continue using CHLORPYRIFOS.  This pesticide has been scientifically linked to one of the causes, if not the main cause, of why BEES DO NOT RETURN TO THE HIVE.  
EPA scientists, under Obama, had recommended stoppage.

I put this on top because I'm partial to the BEE and Colony Collapse Disorder is a real problem for the entire planet.  Simply read about what happens if BEES were to vanish. If you aren't aware of CCD....YOU SHOULD BEEEEEE.

In May of 2017 Trump announced a 23 percent cut in the EPA's enforcement budget and a 31 percent cut in the entire agency.

Stop and consider that enforcement is the key to preventing or stopping someone from doing something illegal to the environment.  In fact there were numerous reports that enforcement was just not an important issue anymore.

DID I FAIL TO MENTION THAT MR. TRUMP REGARDS CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES AND GLOBAL WARMING AS A HOAX....AND THUS 60 MILLION WHO SUPPORT HIS ACTIONS ALSO MUST BELIEVE IN THAT SAME HOAX

IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION  THE EPA COLLECTED $12 MILLION IN CIVIL PENALTIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLATIONS.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION COLLECTED $36 MILLION IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION COLLECTED $30 MILLION.


In October of 2017 the EPA announced that it would eliminate the CLEAN POWER PLAN... ...claiming that the "war on Coal was over."  In 2015 the CLEAN POWER PLAN had mandated that US power sector's carbon emissions be cut by 32 percent....(870 million tons of C02.

In February of 2018 Trump proposed large cuts to the Climate and Clean Energy programs.

In May of 2018 The Trump administration announces that it will cut the NASA Climate Monitoring Program. This 10 million dollar program was created to improve the monitoring of global carbon emissions.

In July of 2018 Scott Pruitt resigns and is best known for having a phone booth installed in his office and for being a strong advocate of the US leaving the Paris Climate Accords.  Two Harvard researchers, in a letter to the American Medical Association, claimed environmental policies championed by Pruitt could kill an additional 80,000 people per decade.

In October of 2018 the EPA said it will disband the Air Pollution Review Board.  The 20 member board consists of scientists who are experts in the health dangers of soot.

In August of 2018 Trump unveiled a plan to nullify Federal rules on coal power plans.

In August of 2018 Trump announces that he has a plan to weaken the fuel economy rules that were put in place by the Obama administration.

This just occurred to me

IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE THE CLEAN POWER PLAN MEANS NOTHING....in fact everything I list means............

............NOTHING....NADA....ZIP.

PLEASE  NOTE THAT THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC(WHICH KEEPS A LIST OF ALL ACTIONS BY THE EPA) HAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED THAT......

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/

"HUMANS' DRAMATIC ALTERATION OF THE GLOBAL CLIMATE IS NOT ONLY A SCIENTIFIC FACT, BUT IT ALSO POSES NUMEROUS SECURITY THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD."

AND WITH THAT STATEMENT I'VE DECIDED TO FORGO THIS SILLY EXERCISE IN AN ATTEMPT TO CONVINCE SOMEONE THAT DECISIONS MADE BY THE EPA, ACTING UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DONALD J. TRUMP, ARE DETRIMENTAL TO THE HEALTH AND WELFARE OF MY CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR CHILDREN....AND ON AND ON AND ON.

IF YOU DON'T SEE THE DAMAGE BEING DONE THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ATTEMPTS TO HELP MAKE THE ENVIRONMENT SAFE.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY PROTECTS BUSINESS AT ALL COST.

THAT SIMPLY IS THE FACT.
And considering that Richard Nixon started the agency the current anti-environmental positions of the elephant party just don't make sense.

IF EVER THERE SHOULD BE A BI-PARTISAN ISSUE

THE ENVIRONMENT 
IS 
THAT 
ISSUE....
BUT
CURRENTLY
IT 
IS
CLEARLY
A ONE PARTY
ISSUE.
(sorry Green Party but let's face the music)

My neighbor said the other day that the Republican Party seems to think they breathe different air and drink different water than everyone else.

Guess what?

THEY DON'T.

End of Part Two and time to move on......

Michael Timothy McAlevey