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I hope you find my subject heading a bit humorous because I really
don't know what the term means.  The fact of the matter of why I am
writing you this memo, is that I can't find the real science
anywhere, that carbon or carbon dioxide is a pollutant.  I feel
this element and that compound have be re-defined as such by
environmentalists who are propagating the greatest myth today --
global warming caused by man-made pollutants.

Please show me the science.  I'm not convinced that California, or
any state of the union for that matter, is under threat of
pollution.  My memory serves me well enough, that when I was just a
youngster, growing up in the San Francisco East Bay Area, I could
smell the morning smog emanating from the Martinez refineries and
exhaust smog from the cars of that era.  There was a real noticable
sign of air pollution and that pollution came from obvious sources.
 Although my lungs did not suffer by it, the smell was obvious and
poor air quality was mildly annoying. That was then in the '70's. 
Since about mid 1980's and forward, the air has cleaned up
significantly to the point I don't smell any car exhaust pollution
lingering, and the oil refineries still in operation today are not
longer belching out any obnoxiousness (to reinforce my recollection
of how it was, I recall the jokes my brothers and I made that while
driving up to Lake Tahoe while passing the martinez refineries on
the way, we would laugh and joke "look, it's the booger factory!". 
That was the rotten egg-smell like oder which is an odor no longer
present today).

Today, long after the EPA's successful achievement in controlling
air pollution from "all angles", cars have cleaner exhaust,
refineries have scrubbers, and the air quality is restored.  No
signs of pollution can be smelled in the air.  Ever.

This is simply my own account of how at one time pollution in water
and in air was an issue in this country.  With the advent of the
EPA, created by President Nixon, this agency has performed its
function to a sense of completion.

Unfortunately, the EPA is not stopping, but going beyond the call
of duty.   How will the EPA effect the production of cheap
energy...

... I don't know. I think we need to abolish the EPA.  They were
needed back in the days of Nixon, but now?