"The EPA has gone waaaaay past just the drinking water thing. Also they ensured crappy drinking water by mass dumping a bunch of waste and ruining one of the rivers in southwest CO."
I assume you're referring to the accidental leak of contaminated mine water into the Animas river. The private sector is free to clean up after itself instead of abandoning mines in a hazardous state. Unfortunately they don't always do that. The EPA is charged with managing hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines of which tens of thousands threaten to contaminate groundwater. Sabotaging and underfunding the organization with this responsibility can't end well.
As a staunch conservative, this attitude mystifies the shit out of me. "$organization does a shit job at what it's supposed to do, so let's cut their funding so they have fewer employees and resources!" How on Earth are they supposed to fix anything if you keep reducing them to a skeleton crew?
I assume you're referring to the accidental leak of contaminated mine water into the Animas river. The private sector is free to clean up after itself instead of abandoning mines in a hazardous state. Unfortunately they don't always do that. The EPA is charged with managing hundreds of thousands of abandoned mines of which tens of thousands threaten to contaminate groundwater. Sabotaging and underfunding the organization with this responsibility can't end well.