The United States Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the . federal government which was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. The EPA was founded by President Richard Nixon and was structured on December 2, 1970 when operations began. After Nixon signed an executive order. The EPA is mostly controlled by its administrator, who is appointed by the president and followed by needing to be approved by Congress. Though the EPA is not a Cabinet department, the administrator can normally be given cabinet rank. The U.S. EPA is headquartered in Washington D.C. which over sees the conduct of each office and their tasks. The EPA gives environmental assessments, research, and education all over the country
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The EPA's enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures that work to the protection of the environment. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts. The EPA has several other programs and educational means that are meant to relay and inform people as well as create standards for the country to follow regarding the safety of the environment and its people.
The Environmental Protection Agency, or, the EPA, has several different headquarters in different countries around the world. With the American EPA having nearly 15,200 full-time workers the numbers of employees world wide is indeed numerous. These workers include human resource engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists. They have several other groups, which involve legal and public affairs, finical and also information technologists. Each EPA structure is unique in, normally, the amount of offices they …show more content…
They are also meant to help protect the environment and everything that entails into the natural state from having extreme damages dealt to it in the future. This includes managing and regulating water supplies for most countries (Even thought it's supposed to be all of them), over seeing means of ridding the dumps of waste, both toxic and non-harmful. They are supposed to help keep animals out of harms way, specifically the wildlife in and around human inhabited areas. They do not do much of that. What they do worry about happens to be mostly plant life and inanimate nature, such as climate change, earth quake monitoring, and more water regulation. The EPA happens to very good at suing people for their atrocities against nature, but do little to prevent those things from happening. They mostly demand compensation instead of preventing said problem from happening in the first place. This does not mean that the EPA is doing a terrible job completely because of these factors and discrepancies in their wake, they happen to be doing a lot of good for the world, though marginal as it may seem. The living situation for many would be far worse without their existence. The EPA is greatly concerned with human health and environment by writing and sending bills and regulations to congress to be passed into laws. The EPA also regularly checks up on waste
The EPA's enforcement powers include fines, sanctions, and other measures that work to the protection of the environment. The agency also works with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts. The EPA has several other programs and educational means that are meant to relay and inform people as well as create standards for the country to follow regarding the safety of the environment and its people.
The Environmental Protection Agency, or, the EPA, has several different headquarters in different countries around the world. With the American EPA having nearly 15,200 full-time workers the numbers of employees world wide is indeed numerous. These workers include human resource engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists. They have several other groups, which involve legal and public affairs, finical and also information technologists. Each EPA structure is unique in, normally, the amount of offices they …show more content…
They are also meant to help protect the environment and everything that entails into the natural state from having extreme damages dealt to it in the future. This includes managing and regulating water supplies for most countries (Even thought it's supposed to be all of them), over seeing means of ridding the dumps of waste, both toxic and non-harmful. They are supposed to help keep animals out of harms way, specifically the wildlife in and around human inhabited areas. They do not do much of that. What they do worry about happens to be mostly plant life and inanimate nature, such as climate change, earth quake monitoring, and more water regulation. The EPA happens to very good at suing people for their atrocities against nature, but do little to prevent those things from happening. They mostly demand compensation instead of preventing said problem from happening in the first place. This does not mean that the EPA is doing a terrible job completely because of these factors and discrepancies in their wake, they happen to be doing a lot of good for the world, though marginal as it may seem. The living situation for many would be far worse without their existence. The EPA is greatly concerned with human health and environment by writing and sending bills and regulations to congress to be passed into laws. The EPA also regularly checks up on waste