Republican candidates' calls to scrap EPA met with skepticism by experts

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Source: The Guardian

Amid prolonged bickering with his rivals, Donald Trump outlined a fairly radical proposal during Thursday’s Republican debate: to scrap the US Environmental Protection Agency.
First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain
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Typically there was little policy detail. But it was clear that the EPA – and its $8bn budget – would be on the chopping block should the Republican frontrunner become president.

“Environmental protection – we waste all of this money,” he said. “We’re going to bring that back to the states. We are going to cut many of the agencies, we will balance our budget and we will be dynamic again.”

The promise was an echo of recent statements from Trump on the EPA. He has said there is “tremendous cutting” to be done because the EPA “aren’t doing their job, they are making it impossible for our country to compete”.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/26/republican-candidates-donald-trump-eliminate-epa-law-experts

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Rubio is just as bad on the environment

It's Reagan 3.0

[pangaia]

1. The greatest threat to the United States, and quite possibly the world,

is the Republican Party... particular the ignorant, untutored, misogynistic, narcissistic, cruel liar leading the race.

I was working out at the local YMCA today, 45 minutes doing aerobics for starters, and 45 consecutive minutes of CNN was ALL this asshole.. FREE ADVERTISING ! . It is ALWAYS like that. 4 days a week I go.. 5 TVs on the walls.. One ALWAYS tuned to CNN. (silent, of course) If not him, them some other republican shit bag, or Hillary's latest polls, or whatever,, , nothing, zero, nada about anything thought-provoking.

If this is the crap people use to learn anything, no wonder the US population has shit for brains.

[hibbing]

2. Everytime he says "I'm financing my own campain" I want to barf

All of his idiotic public events are covered on all three "news" networks.

Peace

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. TheRump is an entertainer. He sells ads for the networks. . nt