Posted on 11/09/2015 2:17:19 PM PST by reaganaut1
The last several months have been bad ones for the Environmental Protection Agency.
On August 5, EPA employees blundered into creating one of the worst toxic spills in American history when they allowed three million gallons of wastewater to flow into the Animas River in Colorado. The spill occurred during an attempted cleanup of an abandoned mine, despite warnings that their activity was creating the likelihood of a "blowout."
But EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy did offer that she was "absolutely, deeply sorry this ever happened."
Later in the same month, a federal court ruled that its proposed "waters of the United States" regulation - an immense grab of new power I wrote about here - was in violation of its congressional grant of authority and promulgated in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. Judge Erickson therefore ordered a stay on the rule. (Decision available here.)
Then, early in October, a report by former Maine senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen showed that the agency had trampled all over the law to kill the Pebble Mine project in Alaska. EPA officials had, he concluded, "orchestrated the process to reach a predetermined outcome." Cohen's study is available here.
On top of all the evidence of incompetence and lawlessness comes a report by Open the Books finding enormous spending by the EPA on a wide array of goodies.
Quoted here, Adam Andrzewski, the founder of Open the Books, said, "Everyone is under the impression that the EPA is spending money to 'clean the environment.' 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
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I am told that 40% of the Forest Service budget is legal costs and that at NMFS it is considerably higher.
And we’re told to just keep voting. No thanks.
Open the books of any governmental agency and you will find appalling waste, inefficiency and ineptitude. Sad, Sad, very sad!!
And yes, we should be rid of those divisions that are not necessary or are unconstitutional.
Obama is an inept “leader” and “manager”. As President, he’s supposed to hold people accountable. Whoever is running EPA should be fired ASAP! Well, what about it, Obama? Does Obama care about the environment like he says he does when he killed the pipeline?
And cut the others in half.
“And we’re told to just keep voting. No thanks.”
They don’t care if we vote, but they do insist we pony up through taxes.
NO, NO, NO!! The EPA caused the “spill” in the Animus River! It was NOT an accident!
A former EPA official wrote an article2 weeks before it happened and he explained how it was going to happen and why they were doing it! And he was right. They, the EPA, did it so the mine would become a Superfund site and they would receive billions of dollars!
waste = thief
“Open The Books On The EPA And We Find Appalling Waste”......
You don’t need to stop at the EPA books, look at NUMEROUS other federal agencies and you will find much the same.
IT NEEDS TO BE DONE!
I suggest that we get rid of the Climate Change SS officers.
Paying the salaries of EPA “workers” is an Appalling Waste
Maybe we need a few PINK SLIPS for the EPA .. and recoup all those dollars by selling off all the stuff they bought which was against their contract to even have.
This is the kind of stuff that really gets my goat.
In the USAF, back in 1966, the standard statement was..”There are NO accidents. They are Caused!”
Wow.
>>A former EPA official wrote an article2 weeks before it happened and he explained how it was going to happen and why they were doing it! And he was right.<<
do you have a source for the article?
Sorry, no. But it was on FR a couple of months ago. I guess the author may not have been ex-EPA, but he is a knowledgeable geologist with high qualifications IIRC.
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