EPA No Longer

Environmental Protection Agency,

It's sad to see your cruel fate,

Brought about by someone who

Wants to make this country "great."

 

Since Donald Trump has been in office,

You are being obliterated

By the very industries

That you should have regulated.

 

Environmental regulations

Have been rolled back to such a degree

That consequences will be titanic,

And that is not hyperbole.

 

Lifting regulations to keep

Coal waste out of waterways

Is an unconscionable act,

Deserving of censure instead of praise.

 

Concerned voices of climate change

Researchers have been muted,

Even though among the majority

The phenomenon is undisputed.

 

Direct results from climate change

Are costing billions of dollars already

And add to making living conditions

On Earth all the more unsteady.

 

Your old title, EPA,

Has been replaced. Let us proclaim:

Environmental DESTRUCTION Agency

Is now a more appropriate name.

 

(11-9-17) By Bob B