Sunday, January 22, 2012

GOP attacks on EPA -- what's behind them?

By BILL STRAUB 



WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency, charged with the monumental task of keeping the air pure and the streams clear, is under persistent attack this campaign season for contributing to the nation's economic woes through what one would-be president characterized as a "regulatory reign of terror."
Republican presidential candidates have viciously attacked the EPA with Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, calling for its elimination. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich promotes an overhaul to essentially disembowel the agency. Before dropping out of the race Thursday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry promoted changes -- prohibiting it from regulating greenhouse gases and various other pollutants -- that would render the EPA toothless.

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