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A People’s EPA (APE) is a website for everyone — the public, students, activists, journalists — to understand the federal agency’s importance within the United States, and for the whole planet. Since its creation in 1970, Congress has charged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with implementing laws that protect us from air pollution, dirty water, and hazardous waste, among other things. This process is complex. Our website provides a straightforward history of EPA’s programs, explains how it operate
“A People’s EPA” is also meant to invoke certain ideals about what this agency should and could be. The EPA is the main federal agency in the US for shielding the living environments of millions of ordinary Americans from the pollution and other ecological damage that wealthy and powerful institutions can inflict. A properly functioning EPA does just that. It works for the people . It protects the air they breathe, the water they drink, the soil their food is grown on, and the places they recreate. To do so
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