John Stossel on Our Bloated EPA

The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required sewage treatment
plants, catalytic converters on cars, and other things that made
the world cleaner than it was a few decades ago. Today, America’s
waterways are cleaner, and so is the air we breathe. In a rational
world, argues John Stossel, environmental bureaucrats would now
say, “Mission accomplished. We set tough standards, so we don’t
need to keep doing more. Stick a fork in it! We’re done.” We could
keep around some EPA bureaucrats to enforce existing environmental
rules and watch for new pollution problems—but not the 16,000
environmental regulators currently employed. This EPA bloat means
that today, instead of environmental regulations that actually save
lives, we pay to subsidize politicians’ cronies and pet projects,
such as electric cars.

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