EPA Vs EPA

In the news, there has been a decent amount of reports regarding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). To be even more specific, there has been controversy revolving around the Trump Administration’s plans with the EPA. This brings up an important question: “How does the EPA impact the country?” Robert Percival, in “Checks without Balance: Executive Office Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency,” discusses how the government, specifically the Executive Branch takes control of the EPA, while providing history behind the EPA. In 1969, environmental issues went mainstream, which required the Nixon Administration to take action. President Nixon then created the Environmental Quality Council – however, the cabinet members were divided and they lacked any environmental experience. Nixon then created the National Industrial Pollution Control Council (NIPCC) which consisted of sixty-three corporate executives chosen by the Secretary of Commerce. Congress also created the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). There were still disagreements between the different councils, and proposals continued to be rejected (Percival). Eventually, the Ash Council (which is the president’s Advisory Council on Executive Organization) and Nixon made an executive order to create the Environmental Protection Agency. …show more content…
EPA case was an important case of defining what the EPA needs to regulate and be in charge of. The case started when citizens asked the EPA to limit climate pollution through the Clean Air Act, however, President Bush and his EPA disavowed its obligation to address climate pollution. They stated how “dangerous climate pollutions emitted into the air … didn’t qualify as ‘air pollutant[s]’” (Levitan). In 2007, the Supreme Court rejected the EPA’s claim, ruling that “carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases qualified as air pollutants” (Levitan). From then on, it was the EPA’s responsibility to address climate pollution in the Clean Air