EPA *

Each state has its own geographical area or territory over which it has been delegated powers and authorities to govern on behalf of the people living within that state.  This power and authority granted to government is to be exercised to promote, enhance, and protect its society and the people’s individual rights and liberties.  This includes protecting their own natural resources and environment.  These are matters primarily of a domestic (state) nature, not federal.  The role of the federal government, under its general welfare clause, would be to protect the people from abuses by the states, not to control the states in the ordinary exercise of their respective powers.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proven to be one of the most wasteful institutions of American government, and it should be a focus for reform, and even elimination, from the federal governmental structure.  Under the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, the federal government has authority to regulate the interaction of trade and commerce between the states, that is, the transportation and taxing of resources, goods, and merchandise crossing state boundaries on its way to market or delivery to its end user.  However, the federal government has overstepped its constitutional authority by creating many federal agencies and expanding its powers to encompass matters properly belonging to the states.  The EPA is one such institution.  We believe this is an institution ripe for elimination from the federal government.