Environmental Outlook: Battle Over the EPA
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-09-06/environmental-outlook-battle-over-epa
In 1969, untreated industrial waste burst into flames on Cleveland's Cuyahoga river. It ignited not just the river, but a burgeoning environmental movement. The following year, President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency. Twenty years later with similar bipartisan support, America's environmental laws were strengthened even more through far-reaching amendments to the Clean Air Act. Now, that kind of broad political backing for the EPA and its mission seems to have all but dried up. As part of our Environmental Outlook series we discuss why the agency and its mission have become so politicized.
Guests
Jeff Holmstead
former assistant administrator for air and radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency (2001-05); now heads the environmental strategy section at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.
Frances Beinecke
president, Natural Resources Defense Council; former member of the National Oil Spill Commission.
David Conover
senior vice-president, Bipartisan Policy Center; formerly at the Department of Energy as director of the agency's climate change technology program and as principal deputy assistant secretary for policy and international affairs; former staff director and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Robin Bravender
environment reporter, Politico.
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Great idea. This is actually well-known.
In a liquidity trap, when spending is too low, taxing away the surplus and then spending it has terrifically good effect. If we would only do it.
Keep 'em coming! We need more like this. Write your congressman.