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The EPA--the Environmental "Punishment" Agency?

First “Proposed” as an Executive Order by Richard Nixon back in 1970, and later ratified by committee hearings in both houses, the Environmental Protection Agency, headquartered in Washington, D.C., now has 27 laboratories for assessing environmental concerns to help the EPA enforce national laws and standards. Supposedly, the EPA works with ALL levels of government, in wide variety, to control and prevent pollution . As of late, mainstream media has a total blackout of the negligence of the EPA to do their job, and there are repeat offenses with no punishments being doled out for huge negligence mistakes regarding assessing hazards; such as NOT assessing lead in tap water, or NOT dumping toxic waste into rivers that span multiple states, or NOT raising the levels of glyphosate allowable in food and ground water just because a corporation ( Monsanto ) (11) tells them to, and now that the WHO, World Health Organization, (14) has declared that glyphosate (3) (50% of Roundup Herbi

Yellow Journalism means printing opinions instead of facts - so then, what do we call the New York Times?

The Pulitzer prize-grabbing New York Times or “NYT” began as the New-York Daily Times in 1851. A Whig Party member by the name of Henry Jarvis Raymond, politician and journalist, founded the paper, which at the time sold for one penny. Six years later, the word “Daily” was dropped from the name, but they didn’t drop the hyphen in New-York until the 1890s. Ironically, the newspaper first ran a series of exposĂ©s ending a Democratic New York city hall reign by William Magear “Boss” Tweed, but in the 1880s, their Republican Party favorable editorials that were helping candidates essentially faded and the newspaper turned more analytical and less politically “dependent.” Then, in 1894, the NYT supported Democrat Grover Cleveland’s run for the White House, a move that ended up costing them readership. The newspaper that was LOSING MONEY at the time was bought in the late 1890s by Adolph Ochs, publisher of the Chattanooga Times, whose motto was to publish “ All the news that’s fit to