The text of a Republican bill that would “terminate” the entire Environmental Protection Agency has been released.
The entire thing takes up only a one-page PDF. Its only section, “Termination of the Environmental Protection Agency,” shares no other details except for the date on which the EPA would be dismantled: Dec. 31, 2018.
Matt Gaetz, a freshman Republican lawmaker from Florida, introduced the bill on Feb. 3, though the text was not publicly available right away. The legislation has three co-sponsors: Reps. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga.
“The EPA has been doing some drastic things,” Gaetz told Northwest Florida Daily News earlier this month. “They have exceeded their original mission substantially under both Republican and Democratic presidents and violated the sovereignty of the states. I think we need to start fresh.”
President Trump has tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead his EPA. Pruitt made a name for himself suing the Obama administration’s EPA multiple times, accusing the agency of executive overreach.
Read Gaetz’s proposed bill below:
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