Category:US Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Protection/Mission
The US EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency
Reflections
Rep. George E. Brown was an author of the legislation that led to the US EPA's establishment and worked in the US Congress for many years to move the original environmental legislation. George was your GreenPolicy Siterunner's mentor, who brought me into politics as a 15 year old in East LA when my high school debate team looked at nuclear weapons and proliferation, the years debate topic, and the Congressman generously shared his ideas about the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' and risks of cataclysmic nuclear war, this as the Vietnam war heated up and the Cold war took on ominous dimension.
>Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first set of laws, a body of originating legal environmental protection precedents from green visionaries like George E. Brown in California, who passed away suddenly in 1999.
"My friend George"
SJS: George was looking forward to the 21st century and especially to the challenge of nuclear non-proliferation, his concern for decades. George was a visionary, an engineer, a vet who opposed disastrous war, and a leader in Congress who led from California in shaping the modern environmental movement. In his 'rumpled, quiet way' he moved to form coalitions few thought could be formed and garnered support for the first set of U.S. Congressional acts that served as foundation legislation for decades of green progress. His work advanced environmental air quality and clean air legislation (he attacked Los Angeles smog, some of the worst air quality of any city in the world at the time and the air standards that came out of California became models worldwide). He succeeded in clean water efforts and, though rarely given credit given his quiet approach to accomplishing big picture goals, he was an author of legislation founding the Environmental Protection Agency. The US EPA was in many ways his vision achieved ... George was for many years the Congressperson out in front of "big science". His profound accomplishments are especially missed now in this era as anti-science positioning threatens in the U.S. Congress...
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An added note about the California political environment, very much out in front of the environmental movement with far-sighted regulations of auto emissions, air quality control, and a host of first-mover green initiatives. I came to know the Governor and supported the Governor's work, eventually becoming an adviser and worked to draft the 1992 presidential campaign platform with Jerry, emphasizing many green ideas as well as campaign finance/lobbying reform to make possible our environmental policies and positions.
Governor Brown had been called many names back in the days as he envisioned forward-looking California ideas -- remember his "Governor Moonbeam" moniker that Mike Royko from Chicago coined and later withdrew as he recognized the Governor was more Jesuit logic-in-action than fanciful 'spacey' concepts. That 'out there' environmental work and California EPA with out-in-front legislation continues to this day acting as a model for many states, and countries, who are moving to catch up and protect their environments.
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Int'l EPA's
The model of green, environmental protections and laws that arose in the 1960s and 70s has served as a model for many government and non-government organizations.
The activism of the first wave of the modern environmental movement has led to advances in awareness and public/private action around the US and globally.
Here are some of the orgs that have been established along the 'EPA model'
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Subcategories
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Pages in category "US Environmental Protection Agency"
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- Each of us can make a positive difference
- Earth and Space, Politics
- Earth Day 2020
- Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
- Earth Day Summit - April 22 2021
- Earth from NASA
- Earth Science Eco-Fields
- Earth Science Research from Space
- Earth Science Vital Signs
- EarthTime
- Environmental agreements
- Environmental Laws and Modern Environmental Movement
- Environmental movement
- Environmental protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental Rules Rolled Back
- ESA Living Planet Announcement - May 2022
- Ethics and Climate Change
- European Union Green Deal - Fit for 55
- ExxonMobil and US House Science Committee v US Attorneys General and Environmental Groups
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