Oh wow, this comment is golden:

dukdukguus
4 hours ago

For those of you too young (or ignorant) to remember a time in America when there WAS no Environmental Protection agency, here's some history:

The Cuyahoga River had been catching fire. Let that sink in. A river made of water was catching fire, and had been for decades, thanks to the near-total lack of regulation of the rubber and steel industries who viewed this river as their own little dumping ground. One of the fires burned for days, in 1952, destroying boats and even a bridge. The most recent fire in 1969 made the cover of Time Magazine, which created the environmentalist groundswell that resulted in the Clean Water act and eventually the EPA.

There were no fish. Not one fish between Akron and Lake Erie. Zero. The river was dead, and being re-killed around the clock every day. American philosopher poet Randy Newman put it this way: "The Lord can make you tumble, the Lord can make you turn, the Lord can make you overflow. But the Lord can't make you burn."

Today? Well things aren't perfect but much, much improved. Except! There are those in the corporate world of unfettered greed who want to shutter the EPA, under the ruse that it would save money. Naah. It would return this river, the rest of our nation's watersheds and the air and land back into corporate wasteland. Wanna know what Dick "Unindicted War Criminal" Cheney did for his buddies at Halliburton? He got fracking exempted from all air and water regulation. Oh, and the crowning jewel of those secret meetings? He was able to exempt the term "fracking waste" from the definition "pollution."

These guys will stop at nothing in their march toward continued record profits. Stop voting them into office.