H.R. 861: Termination of the EPA
H.R. 861: “This bill terminates the Environmental Protection Agency on December 31, 2018.”
Introduced: February 3, 2017
Sponsor: Rep. Gaetz, Matt [R-FL-1]
Co-sponsors: Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4]*, Rep. Palazzo, Steven M. [R-MS-4]*, Rep. Loudermilk, Barry [R-GA-11]*
March 7, 2017
Dear Congressman Crist,
In January 1970, President Richard Nixon, with bipartisan support, signed the National Environmental Policy Act. Later that year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was formed to protect human health and the environment.
The EPA ensures clean air, safe drinking water and healthy bodies of water. It protects people and the environment from hazardous wastes and toxins and supports the investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct that threatens people’s health and the environment.
Before 1970, toxic substances and emissions that polluted our air, water, food, work places, public lands, and homes went unchecked. Some of us remember the deadly results of DDT , the Three Mile Island Accident, the Cuyahoga River Fire as well as the dangers of acid rain, smog over Los Angeles, visibly polluted highways and waterways, lead in our gasoline and paints, and the littered landscape of unchecked dumping.
I strongly support continued and increased funding for the EPA so this essential agency can continue to research, investigate, monitor and regulate detrimental factors, and criminalize abuses that impact the health of humans and the environment for all Americans.
Please vote no on H.R. 861 and do everything within your power to ensure that the Environmental Protection Agency and all the laws and regulations associated with it, as well as the authority of the agency itself, are fully funded and protected.
Respectfully,
Nancy Kivette
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