Talk:United States Environmental Protection Agency
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I removed "as long as it does not interfere with economic interests" from the description of the EPA's mission in the first sentence of the article. No explanation was given by the contributor of this recent addition. In fact, the EPA's mission statement, found on the agency's own "About EPA" webpage, does not contain this qualifier. In addition, neither "economic" nor any other form of the word can be found anywhere on the "About EPA" webpage. See http://www.epa.gov/epahome/aboutepa.htm --ChicagoJason 19:18, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
To do:
- Describe the criteria the EPA uses for banning pollutants.
- Give examples of pollutants banned by these criteria.
- Is carbon dioxide a "pollutant"?
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- Carbon dioxide is not directly regulated by the USEPA, as it is considered benign by the US goverment. However, they do indirectly regulate carbon dioxide emissions through the enforcement of energy efficiency standards, including their voluntary energy star certification program. All their efficiency standards and absolutely everything they are doing in regards to CO2 is in the US Climate Action Report at their webpage. It is worth noting that the California state goverment does plan to regulate CO2 through CARB, although the federal goverment unsuccessfully challenged their authority to do so. --Lack Thereof 03:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be at United States Environmental Protection Agency? At least several states have their own EPA's and I'm sure other nations also have their own. --mav 05:10, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
I agree with mav - the page should read United States Environmental Protection Agency.
I also agree, there is for instance Queensland EPA to which this would apply. I'm going to move it. Lankiveil 12:04, 24 April 2006 (UTC).
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[edit] Controversy section needed!
There should be a controversy section to this wiki page. I mean a green agency whose head is installed by Dubya is as efficient in protecting Mother Earth as the FCC would be under the directorate of Goebbels.
- What about the recent controversy regarding allowing testing of pollutants on mentally handicapped children and orphans? It should at least be addressed briefly if it's still an issue. Rōnin 10:44, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
I added a lengthy remark accusing the EPA of following a political and anti-scientific agenda. But perhaps you wanted more about right-wing bias than about left-wing bias? --Wing Nut 18:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] new article: Timeline
hey EPA editors -- I created a new article quite a while ago, and since then haven't had a chance to follow up: Timeline of major US environmental and occupational health regulation. Please take a look and add/subtract/modify at your pleasure. I would ask that you please read the talk page first for a description of why I chose that name, and what I intended for the article. thanks! bikeable (talk) 03:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Urination in Oceans and other bodies of water
Why hasn't the EPA initiated research grants into official studies regarding the public health and enviornmental concerns regarding human urination into oceans and other bodies of water? If you count the amount of surfers, recreational swimmers, scuba divers, and boaters that urinate into the oceans, and lakes, and rivers of the world....that's a lot of pee. Alot of pee, that you and me, have to see, and swim in day-lee. Would you swim in a sewer? Would you swim inside a toilet? The American people won't stand for it. Petition the government, write letters to your Congressman, BOYCOTT THE EPA!!!! This nation will no longer shop at the Environmental Protection Agency for anything. That's right. This urination will not stand. MonkBirdDuke 08:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DDT Section
A friend of mine at the EPA, when shown the article, called it dishonest and a misrepresentation. I have reworked that section so as to not be inflammatory, and so that it represents DDT's ban as being about ecosystems, not human health. Talk page if you have questions. --\/\/slack (talk) 22:14, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
