The EPA and Presidential Republican Hopefuls

In the forefront of debate issues, the EPA has been the "it" girl.  Presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, have expressed their hopes of deregulating her and removing her altogether.  Is this for the benefit of America, or the benefit of corporations?

Jinkies Scooby, looks like this is a case for "which corporations are behind the death of the EPA?"  

Before we begin, let's have a quick overview of the EPA.  Beginning in 1970, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is an agency charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress.~Wikipedia

The EPA is a agency to hold accountable the big businesses of our country, in regards to pollution and their carbon footprints.  Issues the EPA deal with include air quality from pollution, climate change, toxic chemicals and pesticides, water pollution, health and safety issues stemming from pollutants and hazardous and non-hazardous waste.  

Big business claims the EPA regulations, hold them back from their main goal of making money, by imposing costly fines and guidelines to abide by.  These businesses claim, the United States could thrive, in a atmosphere dreamt up by Ayn Rand.  The country where the government stays out of business.

Big businesses have profits solely on the brain, or they would be able to see the detrimental impact, pollution has already caused just from our country alone.  A look through the fines imposed in 2011 alone, tells a different tale of the EPA.  February 2011, a Hawaiian corporation is fined for misusing pesticides.  In June the EPA fined a metal plater for improperly disposing of hazardous waste. Three companies in May were fined for illegally mixing and distributing millions of gallons of bad gasoline.  Recently in August, the EPA fined a well known company named WM-waste management $1 million dollars, for failing to properly dispose of waste near a community that has had a surge in birth defects.  In Morrison, IL this year, we saw the EPA and GE working with the city to cleanup the site from their factory where trichloroethylene-a cleaning solvent, has contaminated the grounds. 

Imagine our country without the EPA.  The alternative is scary with birth defects, increase in asthma, new cases of cancer and the devastating effects on our planet.  

Big energy business, hate the EPA.  The likes of BP oil, Exxon Mobile, big coal companies and the new kid on the block hydraulic fracturing, all are on the watchful eye of the EPA.  The EPA is hard at work watching for risks to our public safety, our ground water and the protection of our fish and wildlife.  Our planet has a delicate balance, and overall profits don't mean a thing without a planet to live on.  

When Bachmann and Perry state a blanket statement such as "I am going to make the U.S. the "king daddy dog" of energy by shutting down the EPA",  my first thought is we need campaign finance reform.  I know these statements cannot be coming from an individual, but only from the likes of a profit minded corporation.  Our country is being bought for ultimately owned (and held hostage), by corporations.  The least these big businesses could do, is pay their fair share, and be good stewards of our planet.  Profit isn't everything, so get up, stand up, but please….do something!