Party Time For Poluters.

       Just how well do you understand the role of the Environmental Protection Agency? If you look at the name, it pretty much tells you what it was designed to do. That is to say, it was designed to protect our environment. Now why would we want to protect our environment? You don't suppose it's because it's the only environment we have, do you?
       Okay, if the idea is to protect our environment, wouldn't you think it should be peopled by scientists, people who study the environment in order do understand what's necessary to actually protect it? Funny, because that's exactly who were on the EPA. That is until Trump and his EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to start firing those scientists and replacing them with representatives of the industries being regulated by the EPA.
       It's a great idea to get rid of the watchdogs if you happen to be the fox. After all, who better to protect these industries from rules that protect us from polluted water and air? The savings to these industries could be huge. And of course any time there's a lot of money involved, you can bet there's a lot of interest on the part of industries who break the rules. After all, if they don't have to spend any money to comply, that's just more money in the pockets of those who run those industries, right?
       So EPA Administrator Pruitt is considering replacing those scientists with those representatives of the polluting industries. The reason given is so they can have input into the costs of complying with tough rules. But didn't they have the right to have input before? They did. The question now is will the scientists have the right to input from now on?