Is the EPA really essential to maintaining wildlife? The United States Environmental Protection Agency was created for protecting the environment and human health by developing and enforcing regulations. But are they doing this and is it even effective?
William Sanjour, who's worked with the EPA for the past twenty years states that the EPA aren't really who they say they are. “ in 1978 the Carter administration, preoccupied with inflation, took steps to protect industry by removing the teeth from those regulations. At first I fought from the inside to make RCRA work in the true spirit of the legislation. The result was that in 1979 I was transferred to another position, with no duties and no staff. I became an outspoken EPA critic, a whistleblower, and have been one ever since” (Sanjour).
Sanjour explains that the EPA is a part of the executive branch, which means the white house. The president has more important things to worry about such as national security, the economy, foreign affairs, etc. The environment is something Sanjour claims is in “Class B”. “The President expects performance in Class A. He will expect the military to be able to deploy forces anywhere in the world when an emergency arises, and if it isn't, he will bang heads until it is. If Congress doesn't support his budget, he will bring the budget director into his office and slam his fist on the table. But can you picture the President bringing the Secretary of Transportation into his office and yelling because of poor bus service in Sheboygan? Or calling the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency into the Oval Office to chew him out for pollution in the Cuyahoga River? I can't. That is the difference. The President expects performance in Class A; in Class B he expects peace and quiet” (Sanjour).
“Hundreds of people in the EPA have spent tens of millions of dollars and have advanced their careers by busily drawing up work plans, attending meetings, making proposals, writing reports, giving briefings, conducting studies, and accomplishing nothing” -William Sanjour
