[Sivad]

“a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment”

The EPA had undertaken a study of the relationship between herbicide exposure and miscarriages and had taken tissue samples from water, animals, a miscarried fetus, and a baby born without a brain in the area. The EPA never released the full results of the “Alsea study,” as it was called, and insisted it had lost many of them. But a lab chemist provided Van Strum with what he said was the analysis of the test results he had been hired to do for the EPA, which showed the samples from water, various animals, and “products of conception” were significantly contaminated with TCDD.

When confronted, the EPA claimed there had been a mix-up and that the samples were from another area. Van Strum filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the results and, for years, battled in court to get to the bottom of what happened. Though the EPA provided more than 34,000 pages in response to her request (which Van Strum carefully numbered and stored in her barn), the agency never released all the results of the study or fully explained what had happened to them or where the contaminated samples had been taken. And eventually, Van Strum gave up. The EPA declined to comment for this story.
https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/che ... on-papers/

[Zagadka]

Gee, things would be so much better if we didn't fund them at all.

Wait, some of you would see that sentence as non-sarcastic. It was sarcastic. We need the EPA outside of the reach of the political administrations.

[Sivad]

Regulatory capture is a form of government failure which occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.[1] When regulatory capture occurs, the interests of firms or political groups are prioritized over the interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society. Government agencies suffering regulatory capture are called "captured agencies".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

We need the EPA outside of the reach of the political administrations.

No, we need public financing of elections and we need to shutdown the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the private sector. Regulators should be barred for life from either working in or being funded by industries they are charged with regulating. Trump enacted a five year ban but there are all kinds of loopholes and five years is not nearly long enough.