By KATRINA CUSTARDO
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has just introduced a new bill attacking the EPA. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., introduced the measure on Feb. 3; the goal of HR 861 simply says, “To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency,” and if passed by the House and Senate, it would terminate the agency on Dec. 31, 2018.
Before getting into the utter stupidity of this new bill, let me inform readers of what the EPA is and what it does. “The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment,” according to the agency’s website. It promotes efforts to reduce environmental risk, federal laws protecting human health and the environment, and working with nations around the world to protect the global environment. Obviously, the EPA is important to the health of America as well as to the health of the world. So, why would anyone want to terminate it?
The above question is an important one. However, the bill does not give a reason that Congress should terminate the EPA. It just says, “terminate.” But I think I have an answer: Those in favor of the bill do not care about the environment. They do not care about the American people’s health. They do not care about the reality of climate change that threatens everyone who lives on planet Earth. Not to mention that the EPA is now under a man, Scott Pruitt, who has previously sued the EPA for big oil companies. The EPA protects waterways and the environment in general from the harmful effects of big oil. As proven numerous times before, oil lines spill, and they spill a ton. This spilled oil affects the surrounding land, turning it black and brown, as well as poisoning any water it gets in contact with.
This is why America needs the EPA: to fight back against business moguls who only care about the green that lines their pockets. We need the EPA to protect the American public from harmful people who seek to destroy our health and environment. Global warming and climate change are a hoaxes invented by the Chinese. Look around Iowa; it’s happening here. It’s near the end of February, and people are enjoying 60-degree weather in tank tops, shorts, and sunglasses. This is not normal for Iowa in February.
This bill is a violation of our rights to live in a healthy country and a healthy world with a healthy environment. We need the EPA to do what it does best: protect us and our environment. The EPA is here to protect us and our world from destruction. And right now, that destruction is in the form of HR 861. Contact your local representatives and say you are against destroying our health and environment. Tell them you are against HR 861.
