Politics At The EPA

[Edgetho]

Our Government Agencies are supposed to serve us without a political agenda.

We get enough politics in this Country through fights in the House, Senate and Executive offices.

But here's the deal.... They're elected. Therefore -- They're accountable.

I can vote against my Congressman, my Senator and the sitting POTUS.

But I can't vote against a bureaucracy that is not responding to the wishes of the people.

You know, agencies like the IRS. Or, in this case, the EPA.

This is how they do it. In fairness, they've been doing this on a small scale basis for a while now. But lately, it's been on steroids. Coincidence, huh?

Like the lady who started 'True The Vote', filed for 501(c)4 status and got visited by four government agencies for the first time in her life within Months? Yeah, some coincidence

How the EPA Helps Environmental Groups Sue the EPA

Recently released emails show extensive collaboration between federal environmental regulators and environmental groups:

Emails show EPA used official events to help environmentalist groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking, incorporated advance copies of letters drafted by those groups into official statements, and worked with environmentalists to publicly pressure executives of at least one energy company.

The disclosures are already causing controversy, with claims that EPA and environmentalist groups collaborated to ensure that new EPA regulations involving carbon capture and storage would effectively kill coal projects.

But the symbiotic relationship between EPA and environmentalist has been going on for quite some time. Every major federal environmental law, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, contains provisions allowing private organizations to sue the EPA if they believe it is not going far enough in protecting air quality. Environmentalist groups do this frequently. And yet, all too often, when the EPA is sued by environmentalist groups, it folds without putting up much of a fight. As former EPA official Jeffrey Holmstead has explained matters, “often the suits involve things the EPA wants to do anyway. By inviting a lawsuit and then signing a consent decree, the agency gets legal cover from the political heat.”

According to a 2013 report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sue and settle has become a common practice: “EPA chose at some point not to defend itself in lawsuits brought by special interest advocacy groups at least 60 times between 2009 and 2012. In each case, it agreed to settlements on terms favorable to those groups. These settlements directly resulted in EPA agreeing to publish more than 100 new regulations, many of which impose compliance costs in the tens of millions and even billions of dollars.”

Suing the EPA can be a lucrative business. The Equal Access to Justice Act, as well as other cost shifting provisions in the Clean Air Act, allow activist groups to collect their attorneys’ fees in these suits if they can show that the EPA’s position was not “substantially justified.”

According to a 2011 GAO report, between 1998 and 2010 the Department of Justice spent $43 million defending against suits brought by environmentalist groups, some of which have raked in millions in attorneys’ fees. Often, fees are awarded even in cases where the EPA merely missed a statutory deadline or made some other procedural error, rather than being substantively wrong.

Much more at the link including multiple links to substantiate their claims.

People, the EPA needs to be taken apart. It needs to be dissolved, destroyed if necessary.

Do we need someone looking out for us when it comes to businesses careleslly and thoughtlessly polluting? Of course.

But this agency has turned into just another dimocrap scam, stealing money and pushing environMENTAL solutions to common, everyday problems.

The EPA has to go

 

[Edgetho]

I know this is a dry topic but try to think about things like this next time you vote..... Or decide not to vote because the candidate for POTUS isn't perfect.

The Executive Branch appoints thousands of positions in government positions. About 1,200 - 1,400 of which must be approved by the Senate...

Does the Senate really need to confirm 1,200 executive branch jobs?

But the majority of them are just hired with no further thought given to them.

They often leave at the end of the term.

What I'm saying is this....

Do you think that John McRINO, as bad as he is, would have appointed Carol Browner to head the EPA? Carol Browner, who sat on the Board of Socialist International?

I guess now, some dimocrap will come along and say that just because she sat on the Board of Socialist International, that doesn't 'prove' she's a socialist.

It's one of many reason why I despise dimocraps.

Do you think Mitt Romney would have appointed John Kerry as Sec State?

Do you.....

The POTUS is mostly a figurehead. He goes around glad-handing and making speeches.

The REAL work of the Executive Branch is carried out by his appointees through his wishes. From the Labor Relations Board to the EPA, Defense, State and even the Judges that get appointed by dimocrap scum to carry their infectious disease into the Judiciary.

So listen up, Patriots.

Next time you go to vote and there's a RINO heading the ticket? Hold your nose and vote for him/her.

The alternative is FAR, FAR worse than any RINO.

Believe it.

 

[SwimExpert]

I don't think it's a dry topic at all. I do think the source lacks sufficient credibility.

 

[Edgetho]

I don't think it's a dry topic at all. I do think the source lacks sufficient credibility.

Specificity would be nice

 

[ScienceRocks]

Thank you epa for that clean air and water

 

[FJO]

Employment Prevention Agency.

They would rather provide water for some obscure minnow than to a farmer who grows food.

They would refuse a lawful landowner to drain his swamp (pardon me - WETLAND) so that a frog that has not been seen in that 'wetland' for generations can still not live there.

Why do they do theses insane things? Because they can.

 

[Edgetho]

Something like the EPA is an absolute necessity. I've seen what Big Companies will do if they're not kept under control.

I remember when the Cuyahoga River going through downtown Cleveland caught on fire because it was so polluted. I remember driving to The Flats where all the Steel Mills are, er, er, were and not being able to breathe because of all the sulphur and other pollutants in the air.

And lettuce not forget, it was Richard Milhouse Nixon who created the EPA because -- It really was necessary.

And it still is.

The problem is simple -- dimocraps. They've gotten complete control of the EPA and are abusing its power. They're going after manufacturing companies with a vengeance and shutting down the cheapest form of energy on Earth without so much as an afterthought -- Coal.

And I recall there are some pretty good advances being made in the area of Super-Heated Coal. They say there is great promise there.

But the EPA has become politicized and is infested with hippies and communists.

Something like the EPA is a must. But the EPA has to go.

I'm talking just shut it down. De-fund it.

Then start over with some new blood. Some non-radical blood.

 

[hazlnut]

The EPA has to go

Most of these suits were brought by conservatives.


This has to be the biggest fail thread of all time.

 

[Edgetho]

The EPA has to go

Most of these suits were brought by conservatives.


This has to be the biggest fail thread of all time.

Here's a thought, cockbreath.

Why don't you try submitting some evidence when you make a claim like that?

Or is it that you can't. Because you're a lying **********.

You want to debate? Fine. Let's debate.

You want to show me wrong by counter-argument? Fine. But show some evidence.

Your opinion means shit.

Just like the rest of you

 

[depotoo]

Something like the EPA is an absolute necessity. I've seen what Big Companies will do if they're not kept under control.

I remember when the Cuyahoga River going through downtown Cleveland caught on fire because it was so polluted. I remember driving to The Flats where all the Steel Mills are, er, er, were and not being able to breathe because of all the sulphur and other pollutants in the air.

And lettuce not forget, it was Richard Milhouse Nixon who created the EPA because -- It really was necessary.

And it still is.

The problem is simple -- dimocraps. They've gotten complete control of the EPA and are abusing its power. They're going after manufacturing companies with a vengeance and shutting down the cheapest form of energy on Earth without so much as an afterthought -- Coal.

And I recall there are some pretty good advances being made in the area of Super-Heated Coal. They say there is great promise there.

But the EPA has become politicized and is infested with hippies and communists.

Something like the EPA is a must. But the EPA has to go.

I'm talking just shut it down. De-fund it.

Then start over with some new blood. Some non-radical blood.

Fortunately many are suing them for over stepping their boundaries and winning. Unfortunately others can't afford the fight or don't have the will to take them on.

 

[SwimExpert]

I don't think it's a dry topic at all. I do think the source lacks sufficient credibility.

Specificity would be nice

Specifically, I think your source lacks sufficient credibility.