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A federal agency established by President Nixon in 1970 that is responsible for monitoring pollution, researching various environmental dangers, and enforcing regulations that limit those dangers.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Quotes in Strangers in Their Own Land
The Strangers in Their Own Land quotes below are all either spoken by The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or refer to The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
Without a national vision based on the common good, none of us could leave a natural heritage to our children, or, as the General said, be “free.” A free market didn't make us a free people, I thought. But I had slipped way over to my side of the empathy wall again.
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In this passage, Hochschild “slips” by revealing her own perspective on the relationship between regulations and freedom: without prioritizing the common good, one person’s (or chemical company’s) freedom will inevitably get in the way of other people’s freedom. Because the free market operates on self-interest, economic actors need not consider the negative consequences of their actions so long as they are not impacted themselves. For Hochschild, this is where the government should step in, but many Louisianans seem to think it has no place even when such conflicts of interest arise. While she recognizes that she is regressing “over to Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque er
The “federal government” filled a mental space in Mike's mind—and the minds of all those on the right I came to know—associated with a financial sinkhole.
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Hochschild draws a parallel between the government and the Bayou Corne sinkhole: both have sucked important resources down into a bottomless pit. Mike even feels that, in addition to unnecessarily eating up resources, the government also destroys small-scale communities just like the sinkhole destroyed his town. More broadly, this comment reflects Louisianans’ sense that government money is wasted money, usually redirected to line-cutting welfare recipients or public sector workers. The picture of the government as a “financial sinkhole” particularly describes the Louisiana state government, which horribly neglected public services during Bobby Jindal’s governorship and does little to help its constituents Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta i
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Term Timeline in Strangers in Their Own Land
The timeline below shows where the term The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears in Strangers in Their Own Land. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6 – Industry: “The Buckle in America’s Energy Belt”
...instead of Texas.” He sees pollution as a “problem from the past,” already resolved by EPA restrictions, and he sees cancer as genetic, unrelated to the region’s toxic pollution.
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Chapter 7 – The State: Governing the Market 4,000 Feet Below
Hochschild cites an EPA report that named Louisiana the worst implementer of federal environmental protection laws in its region....
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Chapter 10 – The Team Player: Loyalty Above All
...spending she saw on Fox News, like a half-billion dollars invested in solar company, an EPA employee who watched pornography on his shift, and an artist who got government funding to...
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Chapter 13 – The Rebel: A Team Loyalist with a New Cause
...cause.” Mike suggests that environmental advocacy is compatible with Tea Party proposals—they could abolish the EPA and make insurance companies, rather than the government, take charge of drilling regulations. But Hochschild...
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To some degree, Mike agrees: perhaps they need “a skeleton crew at the EPA.” But he thinks that global warming does not exist and believes that the EPA uses...
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Chapter 15 – Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise
...have attacked the man had he made it onstage. And Trump wants to abolish the EPA “in almost every form.”
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Chapter 16 – “They Say There Are Beautiful Trees”
Lee Sherman continues to maintain his old racecars and campaign for anti-EPA Tea Party candidates. Mike Tritico and Donny McCorquodale continue their lively discussions over dinner at...
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Afterword to the Paperback Edition
...okayed the drilling that led to the Bayou Corne Sinkhole. His pick to lead the EPA, Scott Pruitt, has started slashing its budget. Louisiana polluters still go unpunished—for instance, a plant...
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...news—but “mainly Fox.” He continued to lampoon the “donut-bloated overpaid useless ass bureaucrats” at the EPA for their tendency to side with polluters. Instead, Mike has his own master plan for...
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...expand industry. As a student interested in protecting the environment, she would study the current EPA cuts; as a student interested in psychology, she would investigate why oil workers reject climate...
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Appendix B – Politics and Pollution: National Discoveries from ToxMap
...scientists as one of the best datasets on social trends in the country,” with the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, which measures the amount of toxic pollution in an area.
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