Makeup Blog Post

I was thinking about our discussion last class when we talked about the "blind trust" that government agencies like the EPA and the FDA create and how many times these agencies are made to push lobbyist ideas. I was reading an article about hydraulic fracturing over the weekend that showed that the EPA had finally created the first set of rules that will require companies to trap the gas emissions at the well head. The EPA has now acknowledged that Fracking has extensive ability to pollute the air and will require companies to contain the pollution. Water has been proven to be effected by gas emissions however, the EPA has yet to create regulations requiring companies to protect water reserves. As I got further into the article, the EPA said it was not going to impose the regulations on the more than 3,000 pumps until 2015. The EPA swore that they were not persuaded by lobbyist but that it was unfair to implement the regulation this year because it is in the height of investment and start-up and it would hinder the potential business.
The article hit right on our conversation of how these agencies push policies that are generally aimed at supporting economic gain and political agendas.