37 days and counting

In 37 days, we will have a new president. However, in the meantime, we will have announcement after announcement of rulings by the current administration.

Yesterday, was no exception.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new regulation yesterday exempting an estimated 118,500 tons of hazardous waste annually from strict federal incineration controls, and it separately exempted factory farms from a requirement to report hazardous air pollution to the federal government.

The incineration control ruling is of particular interest because the language can be loosely translated as “if you can burn it, it is not hazardous waste.” Which we all know is just simply not true.

This ruling is also particularly timely as the EPA is coming under attack for not testing the air quality around schools, as investigated by USA Today. The FDA and the EPA seem to be passing rule after rule that supports big business and not the citizen.

The article can be found HERE, via Washington Post.

I would like to remind the EPA, however, on their own mission statement, as found on their website:

EPA leads the nation’s environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people.