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Emboldened by the election of President Donald Trump, Republican lawmakers plan to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. New legislation submitted to congress declares: The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018. Earlier this month, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a freshman congressman from Florida, introduced legislation that would abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
During Reaganâs first term, there was a Democratic House of Representatives and the Senate was controlled by moderate Republicans â many of them relatively pro-environment, including Robert Stafford (Vt.), Bob Packwood (Ore.), and John Chafee (R.I.).opping it all off were efforts to slash the EPA enforcement program: âThe enforcement slowdown was staggering,â said a staffer at the House Energy and Commerce Committee who helped investigate the Reagan administrationâs enforcement of environmental laws during the early â80s.