The first person to head the Environmental Protection Agency, which was established by President Richard Nixon, in late 1970, was a new Republican politician named William Rukiloshaius. Ruckelshaus, known to his friends as RUCK, from Indiana, came, during a period of one state in the state’s parliament in the state, to obtain the leader of the elected majority. When choosing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, move quickly to create the credibility of the new agency. Just one week after his term, he warned of the cities of Cleveland, Detroit, and Atlanta that they could be prosecuted to pollute their waterways, and over the next few months, he has taken action against many major companies, including the United States Steel. In an interview with time A year after the job, Ruckelshaus described his strategy as focusing on “violators with the largest vision in order to deliver the message.” The task of organizing the agency was similar to the follow -up of the pollutants at the same time “to try to operate a hundred yards while performing an appendixctomy.”
Since Ruckelshaus, the Environmental Protection Agency, depending on how you calculated, had fifteen or sixteen other presidents. Many of them were, with the phrase, Cloons. Ronald Reagan’s first choice for this position, Ann Jorsh (the mother of the Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorses), implemented deep budget discounts, deported the morale of employees, and ended up citing contempt for Congress. (To clean its chaos, Reagan called Rugelsheus back; from here it was produced in the number. It was investigated, among other things, imposing fees on the agency for first -class trips, traveling with security details to Disneyland, and installing the anti -sounded “privacy booth” in his office at a cost of taxpayers of more than forty thousand dollars. When she resigned, in the summer of 2018, Carlos Corpilo, who was then a Republican member of Florida, launched a “embarrassment”.
Among these August company, the current official of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeladen, is still standing. In two months since his assertion, Zealin, a former Republican Congress member of Long Island, announced his intention to decline in dozens of environmental rules and reduce his agency spending by two -thirds. He is said to want to eliminate the scientific research arm at the Environmental Protection Agency, which employs more than a thousand people. In a two -minute video that was released earlier this month, Zeladen, who was wearing a green striped tie, seemed to the point of abandoning the agency’s foundation. He said that the Environmental Protection Agency will work to “reduce the cost of living”, by making the cheapest purchase of a car and heating the house and operating a company. Anywhere, and Times Note, “Did he refer to environmental protection or public health?” Zeldin’s assault on the Environmental Protection Agency is so wide that it can affect everything from arsenic pollution to brutal control. But the official trained the heaviest ammunition on the efforts made to reduce climate change.
On the same day as Zealin released his video, he published an article in Wall Street Journal Which he boasted about “Dagger Dagger through the Heart” Climate Organization. To implement this bloody act, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to cancel a set of bases of the Biden era that aims to curb participation2 Emissions from power stations, detecting another set of rules aimed at reducing emissions from cars and trucks, and reviewing the way the government establishes climate change damage. (This last step includes the so -called carbon social cost.) The most amazing of the Environmental Protection Agency wants to reconsider what is known as “discovery of exposure.”
The result, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency again in 2009, bears the name Co2 Other greenhouse gases are a threat to the public’s health and well -being, and this in turn has become the basis for the agency’s efforts to organize it. The result relied on dozens of studies reviewed by the peers and huge reports by groups such as the National Research Council. Since then, the United States has witnessed one climate-related catastrophe after other-recently, Los Angeles fires-and evidence of CO increase2 Dangerous levels are only more enormous. “There is no potential world in which greenhouse gases do not pose a threat to public health,” is how Kim Cope, the climate scientist at the University of Brown, to the Associated Press.
With the help of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to make emissions grow again. It gives the preferences of fossil fuel industry, for example, opening more lands in Alaska to dig oil. He also bowes the competitors of the industry: The president announced, in an executive order issued on his first day in his post, that he will stop rental contracts for the development of marine winds. On the last day, on social media, he said he wanted the country to burn more charcoal, which is the most intense carbon fuel.
Returning the regulations of any type-frankly, is anyway-a long-time process and takes a long time. The Trump administration made the first effort so slow that it was often lost in court. The same may be the case with “dagger with the heart of” climate planning; In the end, the victim may survive. But the Environmental Protection Agency can dissipate years for the endeavor. Meanwhile, the task of reducing climate change cannot be more urgent. Last week, the World Meteorological Organization issued its annual “Global Climate” report for 2024. He pointed out that the signs of human warming caused “have reached new horizons”, with consequences that will “irreversiblely to hundreds if not thousands of years.”
One person seems to expect this catastrophe is Ruckelshaus, who died in 2019. Perhaps the first official in the Environmental Protection Agency was known as the Public Prosecutor. Ruckelshaus resigned from this post on October 20, 1973, when Nixon tried to make him shoot at Watergate Public Prosecutor. (The events that led to his resignation became known as the Saturday night massacre.)
In the summer of 2016, Rukilshayus became very concerned about what he heard from that time, the candidate Trump, along with a former Republican leader in the Environmental Protection Agency, William K. Riley, Hillary Clinton. The two men wrote in a statement: “Trump will call climate change a trick – the correct and environmental threat to the world today – in the face of overwhelming international sciences.” Talk to Greenwire Shortly before the elections, Rukilisius expected that if Trump wins, he will appoint a person to lead the Environmental Protection Agency “he did not believe in and tries to dismantle the agency.” He added, “I think Trump is scary.” ♦
