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The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, is an executive department in the United States charged with protecting the environment and overseeing human health issues as they relate to the environment. A child of the social upheaveal that was the late 1960's, the EPA was signed into law by that noted commie and tree-loving hippy liberal, Richard Nixon, in December of 1970.

Although the EPA does not create laws, they are involved in the process, by writing policy and enforcing both the policy and the larger laws that are written by the United States Congress.

Some of the efforts the EPA has been involved in include:

  • Removing lead from as many products as possible (although the European Union's ROHS[wp] initiative has gone further)
  • Irritating conservatives and some in the business community
  • Setting effective air and water quality standards, following the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts
  • Irritating conservatives and some in the business community
  • Regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act
  • Irritating conservatives and some in the business community
  • Setting fuel economy standards for cars sold in the US
  • Irritating conservatives and some in the business community
  • Establishing and maintaining the Endangered Species list,[1] including the polar bear
  • Irritating Republicans and Sarah Palin.

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