environmental protection agency

For many people, the Environmental Protection Agency conjures up images of thugs who come beat you with a bag of doorknobs if you don't recycle your plastic. While the agency does have the power to fine and sanction anyone who is not complying with strict environmental standards, the goal of the agency has always been and always will be to simply make America cleaner and safer.

When President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (with Congress's backing) on December 2, 1970, it is doubtful he had any idea how big and powerful the agency would come in just a few short decades. The agency now has approximately 18,000 full-time employees who conduct environmental assessment, research, and education.

As can be expected, this research has created a lot of "Technological Jiggery Pokery." Everything from wind and wave turbines, solar power, wood pellets, hybrid cars, and recycling centers have all come into being because of the direction and vision of the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency also leverages this research to work with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.

Bloggers speaking about the Environmental Protection Agency can be found at such sites as globalwarmingisreal and greenversations.

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• Federal Water Tap, January 30: Nuclear Waste and Drought

  
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• Pike Research: Building Energy Management Systems to Reach $6B by 2020

  
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• Federal Water Tap, January 23, Part 2: Energy and Climate

  
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• Destroying America by Denying Access to Energy

  
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• No Permit For You

  
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• Weighing the Environmental Costs of Economic Recovery

  
  Forbes - Material Witness — Authority: 89
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• Rushing To a Full Stop: Obama Gets It Right When He Talks About the Keystone Pipeline

  
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• HOP introduces two new energy-efficient Desktop PC

  
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• Congress Mandates the Impossible (Scroll down To Gunny G Reader Responses)

  
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• EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York Fracking Rules

  
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• Top 10 Green Trends of 2011 from TIME Magazine

  
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• Obama’s Unconstitutional Power Grab By Congressional Bypass

  
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• What is Environmental Justice and Why did the EPA sing, “Free At Last”

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 475
  Reprinted with permission from Christopher Searles blog – http://chrissearles.blogspot.com/ In January of 2011 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights Affirmative Employment and Diversity at an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, ...
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• LISTEN: Justice Alito Fired Up in Case Pitting Property Owners Against EPA

  
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• Idaho Mountain Express: Share the bikes in Hailey? – December 28, 2011

  
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• Google and Duke University Get Their Hands Dirty… With Hog Poop

  
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• Ron Paul: Outrageous Overreach of the EPA

  
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