Friends' Work

// FIE submission to the EPA Review

In our 2 page submission to the current review of the Environmental Protection Agency, we identify 10 key issues that must be addressed – oversight by the Ombudsman, open complaints, consolidated legislation, transparent procedures, pro active enforcement, addressing cumulative impacts, meaningful penalties, and an end to the retention culture– as well as better definition of its educational role. We quote Dan Boyle:

 "I believe that if we had a proper environmental body, a body in which the public had confidence and in which there existed a widespread belief that our environment was being properly protected, then many of our citizens should not feel the need of having to go outside and seek international support for the type of environmental protection we should be doing ourselves."

Read The Submission