Just dawned on me GOP Convention overlooks river that spawned the EPA

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Cuyahoga River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River

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The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire helped spur an avalanche of water pollution control activities, resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, and the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). As a result, large point sources of pollution on the Cuyahoga have received significant attention from the OEPA in recent decades. These events are referred to in Randy Newman's 1972 song "Burn On," R.E.M.'s 1986 song "Cuyahoga," and Adam Again's 1992 song "River on Fire." Great Lakes Brewing Company of Cleveland named its Burning River Pale Ale after the event.

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1. Why their beloved Nixon created...

in order to create something not effective so we would never be able to get something effective.

[Orsino]

2. How appropriate that they're completely overlooking it, then.

[liberal N proud]

3. Just a few feet from Arena to the Cuyahoga

But the big fence they erected for Trump protects them.

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4. Huff Post today GOP Platform environment and EPA

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republican-party-platform-environment_us_57907b86e4b00c9876ce223d?section=

6 Ways The GOP’s Environmental Platform Will Damage The Earth

The platform calls for converting the EPA into an “independent bipartisan commission.”

“We propose to shift responsibility for environmental regulation from the federal bureaucracy to the states,” it reads.

By doing this, the federal government would no longer be able to study the effects of pollution or establish safe standards, the news outlet Grist reports. “In a particularly Orwellian touch, the Republicans promise that a kneecapped EPA would adhere to ‘structural safeguards against politicized science.’ That actually means safeguards against scientific findings they don’t like,” Grist notes.

The platform also calls for the abolishment of the Clean Power Plan, the EPA’s program to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants.