Top 10 stupid environmental policies.

This article presents a Top 10 list of the most seriously stupid environmental policies in the United States. Heavy applications of pesticides and fertilizers on suburban lawns and golf courses, is a truly needless effort at aesthetic appeal that is damaging water quality. The U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment urban program revealed that significant concentrations of diazinon, atrazine, carbaryl, chiorpyrifos, etc. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is not a Cabinet-level agency. The United States is the only developed country that does not elevate its environmental agency to cabinet status. From ballast water to shipping materials, people lack serious policies to prevent and control invasive species, to achieve critical environmental and social goals, one should change taxes arid subsidies that encourage the use of nonrenewable, polluting substances.