Stephanie
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they are USING your own money for their own pr. Propaganda to be USED against you. how about that for freaking gig? but talk defunding them and omg the left/dems wails how we all want dirty air and contaminated water. well look who the one contaminating our waters. the EPA. This is sickening
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he Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent over $15 million on outside public relations consultants despite employing nearly 200 full-time, in-house PR workers, reports the Washington Free Beacon.
Open the Books, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transparency, released a report on EPA spending which revealed numerous examples of, shall we say, questionable expenditures.
Among them, the EPA spent over $15.1 million on outside public relations consultants between 2000 and 2014. This was on top of the $141.496 million in salaries and $1.5 million in bonuses on full-time public affairs officers which the EPA has spent since 2007. As of 2012, the EPA employed 198 public affairs employees, whose average salary is $111,165.
"Everyone is under the impression that the EPA is spending money to 'clean the environment,'" said Adam Andrzejewski, the founder of Open the Books. "But it turns out EPA is running a $160 million PR Machine, $715 million police agency, a near $1 billion employment agency for seniors, and a $1.2 billion in-house law firm.
“The EPA wasting $160 million on public relations dwarfs our recent exposure of their high-end furniture purchases ($92 million),” he continued. “Nothing is emblematic of government excess like an army of highly compensated PR agents sitting in their easy chairs. It’s simply waste.”
Combing through $92.692 billion in EPA contracts and grants between fiscal years 2000 and 2014, Open the Books also found that the EPA spent $261,456 on badges and insignia, millions on gym equipment, and $17,820 on “Games, Toys and Wheeled Goods.”
“The EPA culture of wasteful spending extended into their own award ceremonies,” said Andrzejewski. “Tagging the awards as ‘athletic and sporting equipment’ in their checkbook, they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pat themselves on their own backs.”
The agency spent $23,884 for awards and trophies for the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) ceremony in 2012 and 2013.
all of it here:
Report Reveals EPA ‘Running a $160 Million PR Machine’
Andrzejewski noted that the EPA also has given $144 million in performance bonuses since 2007. “It’s an imbedded culture that gave $4 million in additional awards, badges, and trophies to themselves paid for at taxpayer expense,” he said.
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he Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent over $15 million on outside public relations consultants despite employing nearly 200 full-time, in-house PR workers, reports the Washington Free Beacon.
Open the Books, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transparency, released a report on EPA spending which revealed numerous examples of, shall we say, questionable expenditures.
Among them, the EPA spent over $15.1 million on outside public relations consultants between 2000 and 2014. This was on top of the $141.496 million in salaries and $1.5 million in bonuses on full-time public affairs officers which the EPA has spent since 2007. As of 2012, the EPA employed 198 public affairs employees, whose average salary is $111,165.
"Everyone is under the impression that the EPA is spending money to 'clean the environment,'" said Adam Andrzejewski, the founder of Open the Books. "But it turns out EPA is running a $160 million PR Machine, $715 million police agency, a near $1 billion employment agency for seniors, and a $1.2 billion in-house law firm.
“The EPA wasting $160 million on public relations dwarfs our recent exposure of their high-end furniture purchases ($92 million),” he continued. “Nothing is emblematic of government excess like an army of highly compensated PR agents sitting in their easy chairs. It’s simply waste.”
Combing through $92.692 billion in EPA contracts and grants between fiscal years 2000 and 2014, Open the Books also found that the EPA spent $261,456 on badges and insignia, millions on gym equipment, and $17,820 on “Games, Toys and Wheeled Goods.”
“The EPA culture of wasteful spending extended into their own award ceremonies,” said Andrzejewski. “Tagging the awards as ‘athletic and sporting equipment’ in their checkbook, they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pat themselves on their own backs.”
The agency spent $23,884 for awards and trophies for the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) ceremony in 2012 and 2013.
all of it here:
Report Reveals EPA ‘Running a $160 Million PR Machine’
Andrzejewski noted that the EPA also has given $144 million in performance bonuses since 2007. “It’s an imbedded culture that gave $4 million in additional awards, badges, and trophies to themselves paid for at taxpayer expense,” he said.
