We need the EPA
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Editor,
The ads criticizing Jon Tester for voting to protect the Environmental Protection Agency are downright disgusting. If God gave us pure water and clean air, then the EPA is doing God’s work.
Many Americans consider the creation of the EPA by Richard Nixon in 1970 to be one of the highlights of his presidency.
It is highly likely that without an EPA, we would still be receiving vermiculite from Libby, Mont., and polluters would say that time alone will cleanse the Gulf of Mexico from the major oil spill.
When forests die from acid rain, rivers are so polluted that they actually catch on fire, and fish contain mercury and PCBs that make them unsafe to eat, that delivers the message that we really need the EPA.
Peter Daniels
Polson
