“Agency capture” is when agencies set up to advocate for the health and well-being of the American people instead transition into advocacy for the very forces whose overreach they were set up to protect us from. Today’s EPA is an example.m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5…

The EPA Keeps Approving Dangerous Chemicals

The EPA is expected to sign off on four new chemicals in the PFAS family, even as concerns mount about their devastating health effects.

huffpost.com

Feb 5, 2020 · 4:06 AM UTC

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This is horrible, small piece of a lot more de-regulation & unwarranted approvals, damages are unbelievable.
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I usually call it regulatory capture but yeah it is a big problem
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This definitely needs to be stopped.
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Been going on for years. Think back to Bush.
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Can we please treat the Agency decision makers and the impeached king to a week long retreat in an enclosed garden with chemical saturated building materials, vegetation, food, clothing, water, air, fabric softener laden bedding and of course, hourly FEBREZE steam baths. #Toxins
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This entire administration is an example of this!!
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Have you read The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank? It's a very good record of the history of regulatory capture since Reagan.
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Evil cannot sustain. You know that.
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