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The EPA’s Secret Staff (dictation from green lobbies in possible violation of the law)
Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/18/15

Posted on 12/26/2015 3:46:48 AM PST by Libloather

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The Energy & Environment Legal Institute has obtained government emails that show the EPA secretly worked with environmental lobbyists to craft its Clean Power Plan regulating greenhouse gases. The emails show this secret alliance designed a standard that would be impossible or economically ruinous for existing coal plants to meet-in order to force their closure.

The New York Times first reported that in 2014 environmentalists Dan Lashof, David Doniger and David Hawkins-all with roots at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)-drafted a "blueprint" that "influenced" the greenhouse gas rules. That wasn't the half of it.

The emails, obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, show that this trio and other environmentalists essentially wrote the rule. Their inside man was Michael Goo, who worked at the NRDC before becoming the EPA's Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy. The emails show intense 2011 communications between Mr. Goo and high-level officials at the NRDC, the Sierra Club and the Clean Air Task Force. Mr. Goo used a private Yahoo email account to send multiple drafts of his options memo to these outside groups, which returned them with draft instructions.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: commies; epa; secret; staff
On May 5, 2011, Mr. Goo sent a version of the options paper to the Clean Air Task Force, which sent back additions and changes. After also running the paper by the Sierra Club, that document was stamped "deliberative" and sent to Ms. Jackson-meaning it was now agency work product. Meet the EPA's secret staff.

As with Bernie Sanders, I wonder where Mr. Goo, Mr. Lashof, Mr. Doniger, Mr. Hawkins and Ms. Jackson invest their money.

1 posted on 12/26/2015 3:46:49 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

EPA, making law without authority for forty years.
Taxation without representation, we have fought this before.


2 posted on 12/26/2015 4:09:58 AM PST by hadaclueonce (I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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To: hadaclueonce

“EPA, making law without authority for forty years.”

One of many gifts to the nation of Republican President Richard M. Nixon. The liberal Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun was another (author of Roe v. Wade).


3 posted on 12/26/2015 4:25:25 AM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Soul of the South

An EO gave birth to the EPA.

Time for an EO, to kill it.

Cruz will do it.


4 posted on 12/26/2015 4:33:30 AM PST by hadaclueonce (I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
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To: Libloather

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I can say with complete confidence that these three and their cohorts in crime at the EPA are fully deserving of public hanging should these emails prove to be true. I urge swift conviction, and the sentence that conviction demands. Until we meet this underhanded evil move to destroy this country internally, we will not have a moments peace. Less than a dozen hangings will insure peaceful co-existence for at least a decade, perhaps even a generation consisting of two decades.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 4:48:49 AM PST by wita
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To: Libloather

all i want to know is does anyone associated with this admin go to prison for the millions of illegal activities they’ve engaged on.


6 posted on 12/26/2015 4:55:52 AM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: Libloather

These agencies are given broad powers to act along like small commie states, they all need to be gutted, all employees fired and restocked with pro American pro business values


7 posted on 12/26/2015 5:03:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun (If we dont stand we will fall hard)
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To: hadaclueonce

“Time for an EO, to kill it.
Cruz will do it.”

I’m not optimistic about any GOP politician killing any agency. Reagan couldn’t kill the Department of Education, or any other agency. How many federal programs and agencies have Republican presidents and Congresses defunded or eliminated?

How is Cruz going to kill an agency fully funded by Congress? In addition, while Nixon did create the agency by executive order, that executive order reorganizing the government was ratified by the House and Senate. To end an agency or department authorize by an act of Congress, the House and Senate will have to pass legislation to do so.


8 posted on 12/26/2015 5:07:53 AM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Soul of the South

Correct, but that does not rule out the distinct possibility of a continued Congressional GOP majority with a Cruz or Trump POTUS that could remove or re-write the law restricting agencies like EPA to their authorized mandates.

I don’t think there is any IF of a Cruz or Trump Presidency. Both the Majority Leader and Speaker are so malleable they will likely become much more conservative when lead by a no-nonsense POTUS.


9 posted on 12/26/2015 5:22:57 AM PST by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: X-spurt

“I don’t think there is any IF of a Cruz or Trump Presidency. Both the Majority Leader and Speaker are so malleable they will likely become much more conservative when lead by a no-nonsense POTUS.”

There is hope for the House since it is accountable to the people. Unfortunately, in a Senate with a small GOP majority, and 6 year terms, there are too many moderate independent actor/egos. McCain, Collins, Graham, Corker, Alexander, McConnell, Hatch, Kirk, Ayotte, Murkowski, and a few others are more than willing to cross the line on matters of principle. We’ve also seen turncoats such as Specter, Jeffords, and Chafee. In a situation where Cruz is elected president, and the Democrats have 49 seats, I can easily see Harry Reid persuading two of those listed above to switch sides and form a Democrat majority in the Senate.

McConnnell has demonstrated he despises the conservative base. As Senate leader he will not be an advocate of much of the agenda of President Cruz.


10 posted on 12/26/2015 5:51:55 AM PST by Soul of the South (Tomorrow is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Libloather

Much of the federal gub mint has been compromised by the mooselimb.
Can’t do anything about his illegalities cause he is a negro.


11 posted on 12/26/2015 6:36:38 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Rubio is a liar, Jeb is worthless, Go Cruz)
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To: Libloather
The New York Times first reported that in 2014 environmentalists Dan Lashof, David Doniger and David Hawkins-all with roots at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)-drafted a "blueprint" that "influenced" the greenhouse gas rules. That wasn't the half of it.

The donors to the NRDC are heavily invested in natural gas.

12 posted on 12/26/2015 7:24:16 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Despotism to liberalism: from Tiberius to Torquemada, and back again.)
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To: ronnie raygun
need to be gutted, all employees fired and restocked with pro American pro business values

They will fight back....especially the mediots who support this sort of policy.

You are correct, these agencies need to be closed, their assets sold, and the individuals who populate them need to be charged under the RICO statutes.

Frankly anyone/everyone who is associated with this administration needs to be charged, convicted and executed. The entire lot of them are treasonous SOB's who should be expurgated from the earth.

13 posted on 12/26/2015 7:35:14 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Libloather
Just last week, the Inspector General over the EPA charged them with a "propaganda campaign" to illegally show they had 90% support for taking control of all waters of the USA.

http://crawford.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398450

14 posted on 12/26/2015 8:01:37 AM PST by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: hadaclueonce

print out an give to congress critter.


15 posted on 12/26/2015 10:22:28 AM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: CPT Clay

This criminal, lawless administration needs no steenkin’ laws!!!


16 posted on 12/28/2015 7:59:40 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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