Noise Control Act

And then we also had environmental, um, actions from the EPA.

The Office of Noise Con- the Office of Noise Abatement and Control was created under the EPA, and the Noise Control Act of 1972 was passed in Congress.

So that Noise Control Act, I didn't actually know that until I was researching this.

Um, but then very soon afterwards, in the 19- early 1980s during the Reagan administration, the newly formed ONAC was defunded, and then OSHA was also reduced in terms of how many inspections they were gonna do.

And basically, it was thought that...

And for noise in particular, it's kind of already over for us on the federal level.

Probably the main culprit of just all the problems we're having is that this Clean Air Act gave the Environmental Protection Agency the mandate to oversee noise pollution, and that led to the Noise Control Act of 1972 and the creation of an Office of Noise Abatement and Control.

And so there was a federal agency that really took noise seriously in the 1970s, and the Reagan administration came in, and they defunded the office in 1981.

And so the EPA still technically retains the legal authority to study noise, but there has been no federal enforcement or nationwide community noise standards for over 40 years.

I want to read a list of all the laws she waived, because I think it gives a good impression of things that matter less to these people than building a giant monument to grift and hatred.

The National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, the Clean Air Act, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Paleontological Resources Protection Act, the Federal Cave Resources Protection Act of 1988, the National Trail System Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Noise Control Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Comprehensive Environment Response Compensation and Liability Act, the Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act, the Antiquities Act, the Historic Sites, Buildings, and Antiquities Act, the Eagle Protection Act, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, Section 438 of the Energy Independence and Security Act, the National Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the Farmland Policy Protection Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Wild Horse and Burrow Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Otay Mountain Wilderness Act of 1999.

Each of these laws was passed for a reason.

It's not easy in this country to restrain capitalism through the law.