America and its Agencies
...ome sort of sub-agency or agencies located in different areas of the United States. Both the EPA and the ATF are sub agencies, the EPA a sub agency of the Health and Human Services Department, and the ATF a sub agency of the Department of Commerce (Bardes et al. 407). Some of the sub agencies of the EPA include: the Air and Radiation Agency, Environmental Justice Agency, Water Agency, and many more (“U.S. Environmental Protection Agency”). Unlike the EPA, the ATF combines “all criminal and regulatory enforcement activities into four major program areas. The four major program areas are: firearms, explosives, alcohol, and tobacco (“ATF Online”). After an extended amount of time searching for sub agencies of the ATF, I was unsuccessful. A rule or act that the EPA has proposed in the past was the Clean Air Act of 1990. This rule covers the whole United States and sets limits of how much pollutant can be in the air at any given time. The fallout of this act is that some companies may not be able to expand or change a production process in the fear that it will not abide by the pollution standards (“U.S. EPA”). The political impact was/is not that large. The Republicans do not support this as strongly as that of the Democrats due to the ties to big business. The benefices of this act are the everyday citizens because of the new lowered pollution levels. This hurt many businesses because they had to make sure their pollution levels were under the set guidelines. This in turn cost businesses money, sometimes great deals of money. The ATF has set a large amount of regulations or rules, one of these rules had to do with the American flag being present on bottles of distilled spirits. The ATF has decided to make distillers of spirits delete the American flag or any resemblance to it. The fallout of this regulation is that the distillers will have heightened expenditures to change the design of the bottles (“ATF Online”). In this ruling, no pe...