Republican Debate

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The Clean Water Act predates the EPA by over 20 years. The National Environmental Policy Act is a year older than the EPA and already has a regulatory commission, the Council on Environmental Quality. The federal government has law that regulates pollution on all lands/waters and the use of public lands. Here is a short list of laws: http://teacherweb.com/CA/UniversityCityH...srvw11.pdf

As Dick said, the EPA is completely redundant and wasteful.

A few of those laws include "The EPA will..." so take out the EPA part and replace it with what? Honestly, I don't care who is responsible for making sure the environmental laws are followed, as long as they're followed by all the states.

Go ahead. Hand it over to the states. The State of California handles everything well.

As for unionist or nationalist I prefer to think of it as centralization vs. decentralization (at least in this case). Economies of scale and all that; you would think this shit would work better than it does. The EPA employs roughly 18,000 people. If every state had their own environmental enforcement agency, I wonder how many employees that would entail? Just thinking out loud.

I'll look at the videos in a bit.