The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) created in 1970 has a prodigious and important job pertaining to the people of America and the land that Americans inhabit. According to the EPA’s website their mission, “ is to protect human health and the environment (EPA.gov).” Who helps oversee the actions of the EPA, so that they can continue their mission? What powers do the EPA possess to help with their mission? What major steps have they taken that have helped them in their mission? All of these questions will be answered in hopes to better understand how the EPA can complete their prodigious mission. The EPA is an agency and there has to be a head or executive to run or oversee it. This is an enormous job and not just anyone can run the
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The first stride that the EPA has taken is aimed at power plants. Most are familiar with power plants and a common image that comes to mind when thought of is large stacks with smoke pluming into the air. People also may think of cities that have large amounts of power plants to have haze in the air causing difficult breathing and disease. According to Doniger, “ completed by the Environmental Protection Agency in August, the clean power act will cut carbon pollution from our power plants - the nation's biggest emitters - by nearly a third by 2030 from 2005 levels. It will accelerate the shift from the old and dirty power system of the past to a clean energy future driven by economical wind and solar power and energy efficiency (Doniger).” Another major stride that the EPA has come to create deals with our vehicles and the fuel they use. The EPA has released the RFS (renewable fuel standards) on the 30th of November 2015 and has two intentions. According to Manning, “ The RFS program is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while reducing US dependence on oil imports. Under the program, a certain amount of renewable fuels must replace or reduce the amount of petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil, or jet fuel (Manning).” The EPA plans on mixing fuel with more ethanol to help meet the goals of the RFS
The first stride that the EPA has taken is aimed at power plants. Most are familiar with power plants and a common image that comes to mind when thought of is large stacks with smoke pluming into the air. People also may think of cities that have large amounts of power plants to have haze in the air causing difficult breathing and disease. According to Doniger, “ completed by the Environmental Protection Agency in August, the clean power act will cut carbon pollution from our power plants - the nation's biggest emitters - by nearly a third by 2030 from 2005 levels. It will accelerate the shift from the old and dirty power system of the past to a clean energy future driven by economical wind and solar power and energy efficiency (Doniger).” Another major stride that the EPA has come to create deals with our vehicles and the fuel they use. The EPA has released the RFS (renewable fuel standards) on the 30th of November 2015 and has two intentions. According to Manning, “ The RFS program is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while reducing US dependence on oil imports. Under the program, a certain amount of renewable fuels must replace or reduce the amount of petroleum-based transportation fuel, heating oil, or jet fuel (Manning).” The EPA plans on mixing fuel with more ethanol to help meet the goals of the RFS