If you are older than 46 years then you remember what it was like before the EPA, raw sewage in the drinking water sources, air pollution so bad people couldn't breath and actually ended up with respiratory ailments because they tried. Yeah, it was so great before the EPA with all the pollution covering our country. I'm sorry to tell you but any advancement costs jobs. I guess we should put computers on the scrap heap because they cost jobs too? The EPA has also helped get clean water into villages in Alaska and has aided with ensuring their sewage doesn't contaminate streams and rivers.