Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.
We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.
EPA's role is even broader than water infrastructure and cleaning up contaminated land - the agency also has a key role in allowing projects to move forward by reviewing environmental impact statements during the permitting process.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.
EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.
There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.
Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.
You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'
We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.
The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
To avoid congestion, I get up at 5:10, grab a slice of raisin toast, and leave the house at 6 A.M. My husband, Tim Dunn, who works for an environmental agency, is still asleep when I slip out, and I find that rather annoying.
