[Tex-Con-Man]

The structure of the EPA needs to be flipped on it's head. The current top-down gives watermelon bureaucrats waaaaaaay too much power. The states need to take complete control of the EPA and take it away from the Executive Branch. Have the state legislators nominate and vote in management of the agency. It need only concern itself with air/water quality disputes between the states.

[dennisw]

The structure of the EPA needs to be flipped on it's head. The current top-down gives watermelon bureaucrats waaaaaaay too much power. The states need to take complete control of the EPA and take it away from the Executive Branch. Have the state legislators nominate and vote in management of the agency. It need only concern itself with air/water quality disputes between the states.

I think you know that the EPA activists are buddy-buddy with the eco-lawyer foundations and coordinate lawsuits with them. Lawsuits where the EPA caves with a wink and a nod. I'll bet they line up favorable judges, when they are able to. The EPA is an affirmative action hiring hall. An excuse to employ the otherwise unemployable. The EPA could regulate fairly with 25% the "workers" it has. EPA "workers" are always dreaming up new absurd business-shackling regulations to justify their existence on the Federal payroll.

Matter of fact 50% of Federal workers in the DC region are unneeded. For them (mostly liberal and affirmative action hires) the Federale Gov't is a jobs program.