Replacing the EPA | Newt Gingrich

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has transformed from an agency with the original animating and noble mission of protecting the environment into a job-killing, centralizing engine of ideological litigation and regulation that blocks economic progress at every turn while also frustrating the EPA’s original mission of protecting the environment. In the name of protecting the environment, the EPA has become a tool of ideologues to push an anti-jobs agenda that would never survive the scrutiny of the American voter. The EPA’s current attempts to regulate greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, and thereby the entire American economy, is the latest and definitive proof that the EPA has gone well beyond its original mandate.