And so many of our fellow memers here still can't discuss a concept and are interested in nothing other than accusing, insulting, or demonizing, or criticizing something or somebody.
As for the EPA, it was Richard Nixon, one of those eeeeeeevul conservatives, who signed it into law as well as a lot of other landmark legislation. There has been no President in our history, with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt, who has been as effective in legislative focus on the environment. But thousands of businesses can now testify to the overreach of most areas of government as time has marched on--and environmental overrreach has been excessively damaging to the economy and has eroded individual liberties.
No conservative wants anybody to have easy ability or or any right to commit environmental violence on others and no conservative wants dirty air, water, or polluted soil/food supply/environment any more than anybody else wants that
Conservatism is all about protecting unalienable rights which never include infringing somebody else's rights. But a government unchecked in size, power, and scope becomes blind to unalienable right and too often goes way beyond common sense in what rules and regs need to exist. Conservatives will push back on an overly and unnecessarily authoritarian government and realize noble sounding titles on legislation does not necessarily mean that the legislation itself is noble.
Liberals of course won't often recognize that good government rather than overreaching government is the conservative's motive and will refuse to look at whether the push back has justifications. If there is something related to 'environmental' in the rules and regs, liberals just assume it is a good thing and any effort to remove it is an effort to allow environmental violence.
You like to claim "conservatism" as benign, but "Conservatism is all about protecting unalienable rights which never include infringing somebody else's rights" is anything but. To me it says protecting your rights but not mine. Which is even worse than anarchy, it's tyranny. If you are allowed to infringe my rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, things revert quickly back to the guy with the biggest club rules the neighborhood. Sort of like urban gangland.