The Environmental Protection Agency (also known as “EPA”) was created by President Richard Nixon in 1970 as part of the United States government. Its main focus is the environment and the human health, with an administrator appointed by the President to be in charge of this agency.
With its headquarters located in Washington D.C. and specialists from various fields (such as engineers, researchers, scientists and lawyers) the EPA not only research and write environmental rules that might become laws eventually, they also make sure the laws that already exist keep a certain standard of efficiency and excellence. The EPA also works on creative solutions in order to reduce pollution, to save energy and water, to control hazardous waste and the use of pesticides, to educate the population and to assist with endangered species - just to name a few.
Although the protection of the environment seem to be a subject discussed mainly by activists and radicals, it is very important for everyone to get involved; since each one of us can always do something in order to improve the conditions of the planet we live in. Therefore, the EPA performs a crucial role that benefits not only the United States of America but the entire world.
