The air quality in Los Angeles is horrible.
I wonder what the EPA web site AirNow has to say? Just checked: We're having a good smog day. Photo is from another day, probably also a good smog day. Maybe later, I'll take my camera and show you what today really looks like.
EPA's www.airnow.gov is often off the mark, yet EPA gets big bucks to keep us environmentally safe.
To clean the air, we need hybrid plug-in electric cars, clean engines, catalytic converters and fuels, and energy from renewable sources like solar, wind, and biothermal. I know this. Why doesn't the EPA?
EPA administrator Johnson wants to revamp the Clean Air Act to favor polluters. LA Times reporter Janet Wilson wrote about it here.
When thinking about where to come up with money for renewable energy subsidies to enable you and I to put solar panels on our rooftops, and buy plug-in hybrid cars, I think get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA isn't protecting public health, so let's give their 2008 budget of $7.2 billion, which doesn't even address climate change, to the people to advance the environment's and public's health, and deal effectively with climate change.
While the EPA talks about what they'll do, they don't do near enough to protect the environment to justify their jobs.
I hear a lot of talk, talk, talk.
As the EPA tries to loosen standards to favor polluters.
I've testified at hearings.
Talk, talk, talk.
At EPA hearing EPA administrators listen to people like me and others' talk, talk, talk, but does anyone listen with an ability to make a change, and if they can't make a change. Adios.
Why should they get paid to be ineffectual with our tax dollars? (I've met a few bright and well-meaning EPA employees but their hands are tied thanks to administration.)
Do I really need to explain that this is bad air to breathe, and the EPA should regulate much stricter air quality standards?
Talk, talk, talk.
I took this photo flying into L.A. last summer.
I don't know if Barbara Boxer would second my vote to abolish the EPA and come up with an impartial 3rd party entity to regulate polluters, and create incentives for non-polluting energy and activity, but I know Senator Boxer might, for she recently attacked the EPA for being ineffectual. For bedding with polluters to make polluters lives easier rather than the public's health.
I say fire them all, and devise a new system to regulate polluters and encourage non-polluting activity.
To read Senator Boxer's testimony regarding the ineffective (and criminal in my opinion) EPA, click here.
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