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Rachel Maddow on environmental partisanship
photo by Alexandrowicz, John L., 1973 (EPA)
In December 1970 Republican President Richard Nixon created the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Weeks later came the Clean Air Act and in 1972 the Clean Water Act (the latter vetoed by Nixon, but passed by Congress in a strong majority vote).
Regardless, even ‘Tricky Dick’ considered environmental issues, like breathable air and drinkable water, to be above partisanship. In the current US political situation, this is plainly not the case. Republicans would like to dismantle the EPA or do away with it all together. They even go so far as to blame the current economic downturn on environmental regulation of industry instead of Wall Street and irresponsible mortgage practices. They do this without any evidence, of course.
Despite rhetoric about overregulation, even in the face of the 2010 BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, why would anyone be so willfully ignorant, dishonest and effectively pro-pollution?
Because that’s where Republican money comes from: big, polluting industry. And I don’t mean to let Democrats off the hook or make them out to be Greens or anything, but we can see the glaring differences and being pro or anti EPA – Richard Nixon’s EPA – is a plain disgrace.
Check out this segment from Monday’s Rachel Maddow Show for more.
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Tags: clean air, EPA, Rachel Maddow, republican, richard nixon
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