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Overview Of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

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“Protecting human health and the environment” is the Environmental Protection Agency, arguably one of the most impactful agencies in the United States’, purpose. The EPA has strengthened America by .Additionally, EPA programs such as ----- and ------- or regulations on car emissions and efficiency making them “75-90 percent less pollut[ant] for each mile driven than their 1970s counterparts” The EPA’s mission may focus protecting on the United States, but numerous of its goals impact the global environment, making it a necessary international organization. Rachel Carson’s book ‘Silent Spring’ critically highlighted to Americans the ecologically degrading effects of chemical pesticides, such as the now banned pesticide DDT; her research book …show more content…

Subsequently, “in the summer of 1970, Nixon issued Reorganization Plan 3,” which would later formally establish the EPA on December second Nineteen Seventy, “reflecting the new understanding of ecology and the environment's status as a …show more content…

Trump’s budget cuts reflect his beliefs of allowing state and local officials, instead of the overreaching EPA and federal government, to independently regulate almost all air and water standards as well the majority of their state’s environmental laws; under the Obama administration the EPA expanded at an unprecedented rate and under Trump’s presidency the EPA’s powers will undoubtedly drastically decrease. Meyer further highlights the Republicans’ opposition to the EPA by reviewing an unlikely and unsupported Republican proposed bill to eliminate the EPA in its entirety. Conversely, Trump and the Republicans’ have a more likely strategy of reducing the EPA’s post-Obama powers through cutting organizational funding or passing specific bills like the Congressional Review Act which would ----- . Along with passing such rumored legislation, alone the one-third budget cut, “will be akin to taking away the agency’s bread and

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