CFP: Suppose a crooked prosecutor framed someone and was determined to get a conviction. So he built an entire case on tainted, circumstantial evidence, and testimony from witnesses who had their reasons for wanting the guy in jail. Suppose the prosecutor ignored or hid exculpatory evidence and colluded with the judge to prevent the defendant from presenting a robust defense or cross-examining adverse witnesses.
You know what would happen—at least in a fair and just society. The victim would be exonerated and compensated. The prosecutor and judge would be disbarred, fined and jailed.
What you may not know is that the Obama EPA engaged in similar prosecutorial misconduct to convict fossil fuels of causing climate chaos and endangering the health and wellbeing of Americans.
EPA then used its carbon dioxide “Endangerment Finding” to justify anti-fossil fuel regulations, close down coal-fired power plants, block pipeline construction, and exempt wind and solar installations from endangered species rules. It put the agency in control of America’s energy, economy, job creation and living standards. It drove up energy prices, killed numerous jobs, and sent families into energy poverty.
EPA’s egregious misconduct inflicted significant harm on our nation. Having acted to repeal the Obama Clean Power Plan, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt must reverse carbon dioxide’s conviction and scuttle the Endangerment Finding that serves as the foundation and justification for the agency’s war on coal, oil and natural gas. Any harm from fossil fuels or carbon dioxide is minuscule, compared to the extensive damages inflicted by the decision and subsequent regulations. MORE
The creation of the EPA might be the worst thing Richard Nixon inflicted on this country. It needs to be abolished.
It wasn’t a visionary move as Nixon should have foreseen that it would fall into the hands of democrats one day and staffed stem to stern with true believer environmentalist bureaucrats.
Wouldn’t it save a ton of ink to print only what wasn’t completely crooked about the Obozo years?
The EPA along with a multitude of other “Alphabet Agencies” need to be relegated to the dustbin of history. Here in Shamokin PA, we have felt the heavy hand of activism via government over-reach for several decade. It took the EPA, DEP, Unions and crooked politician 50 years to fleece our city and surrounding areas of our wealth. At one time Shamokin was know as “The City of Opportunity”… if you could not find work here, you were considered unemployable. Now, the city is bankrupt and relies on importing the trash from Philly, NYC etc… to fill the welfare and HUD rolls just to keep the city afloat. Our county, Northumberland, was once #3 in the top ten most corrupt county governments in the USA.
The “War on Poverty” was/is actually a “War on Prosperity”.
I think you need an EPA lite based in DC under the control of Congress. Take the current EPA and dismantle it, putting its responsibilities back to the States where they belong. Take half the EPA’s current budget and distribute that to the states to establish and run their State EPA’s. The rest (apart from about 10% used to run EPA Lite goes to pay down the debt). The Federal EPA Lite is kept around as a group that primarily acts as a communication venue between the State EPA’s) that has the authority when authorized by the Congress on a case by case basis to step into a situation that is too much for the State EPA to handle. Sort of like a disaster relief agency, a FEMA kind of. The EPA Lite reports back to Congress and the State on a regular basis. When the crisis is over (or the the cleanup complete, whatever) a final report is issued to Congress with copies to the States and EPA Lite goes back to it’s normal tasks.
Every bit of government is WEAPONIZED to beat you down with brute force…..and with your own tax dollars.
No wonder they love big government so much. They have a cudgel to swing around and dare you to step in front of it.
Not to worry. Jeff Sessions is on the job DOJ department of jackoffs.
Duke lacrosse team?
Git rid of EPA DHS DOE & DOE.
Let each state deal with these tasks
as they see fit.
There’s too much corruption in individual states to allow them to have complete control of something as far-reaching as toxic waste. I don’t think they would do the right thing. I wouldn’t trust the government of WA state, for example, to do the right thing with public lands. They don’t already.
Get rid of the EPA and enforce existing environmental law (after getting rid of the unelected bureaucracy which exists for its own sake).
@AbigailAdams; I see your point but that’s why you keep an EPA Lite reporting to Congress with a tipster line because the one thing you’ll never run out of is environmentalists willing to drop a dime (and that could be a good thing).