Posted on 09/15/2014 5:56:02 PM PDT by jazusamo
The EPA and environmental groups are exceptionally close for a government agency and lobby groups, with a revolving door and pressure from the groups often shaping EPA’s policies, according to a new report from a conservative watchdog group based on emails obtained in a yearslong battle with the agency.
The report, which details what the Energy & Environment Legal Institute terms “collusion” between the Environmental Protection Agency and eco-friendly groups, is also a study in the way E&E; used open records laws to force transparency on a secretive agency.
Chris Horner, the report’s author, said the emails show EPA officials aren’t acting as impartial regulators but as committed environmentalists whose minds are already made up on a number of the big issues that come before the agency. Mr. Horner said it was the equivalent of the EPA collaborating with oil companies.
“These emails reveal the realities of how the Obama EPA operates, and candid admissions among themselves and pressure group allies about their shared agenda and its impacts,” Mr. Horner said. “The emails’ content also explains why the administration so furiously opposes efforts to obtain the oft-promised transparency: These realities wouldn’t possibly sit well with the broader public.”
The EPA didn’t respond to a request for comment, and neither did the Sierra Club, which takes the lion’s share of criticism from the report.
Mr. Horner’s report lists numerous times that EPA officials didn’t recuse themselves despite handling decisions where their former colleagues at environmental groups were lobbying them for a specific outcome.
He also details collaboration between the EPA and the Sierra Club to try to shape press coverage, the EPA letting Sierra Club officials submit comments for the public record even before the official comment periods had begun, and EPA officials soliciting legal opinions from the Sierra Club...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Collusion = criminal
But nothing is being done about it, in spite of the evidence.
There is nothing that isn’t corrupt with this criminal regime.
“....But nothing is being done about it, in spite of the evidence.”
...and nothing will be done as long as there are DemoRATS at the top directing all government actions with a sickle in one hand, and a hammer in the other.
In dis day and age of openness and transparency in gubamint,,
I’m shocked to hear this, just shocked.. Well, No, not really..
But I am disturbed.. Well, not the way some folks are ..
or may construe others to be..
The phoniness of the diatribes against Right Wingers
Is reminiscent of how gulags used to get populated.
Jmho
And don’t forget the crocodile arms fights they put up when they get sued by environmental lobbying groups to “force” them to comply.
Sorry to point this up, but it’s the Republicans in the House who hold the purse strings right now.
You’re absolutely right.
Like 0bama, his administration lapdogs blatantly ignore laws and ethics and dare anyone to do something about their criminal behavior.
Yep, hit them with Felony charges for Theft of Public Services like they did for Bob Mcdonnell.
You couldn’t be more right.
The Republican’s in the House are doing just as they are told by the DemoRATS at the top. If they weren’t something would be being done. Am I right, or am I missing something?
The GOPe, or establishment is obviously being run by the same shadow group as the Democrats, or the Republicans wouldn’t be rolling over into the loving arms of the DemoRATS every time there is a controversy. The resolutions always go in favor of the Left, because the Repubs are had.
Don't be sorry.
It is they who should have shut this farce down long ago, and then demanded the podium to explain to the American People that their Government has been hijacked by special interests who are costing each and every taxpayer money (for starters).
But, we've been thrown under the bus by the uniparty. It is just that roughly half of them never were our 'friends' and never made any bones about it. The rest, the 'lesser evils', were elected either to keep our enemies out, or on false pretenses, and in the long run those turncoats qualify themselves as being more evil than a self-declared enemy.
Short of marching the whole lot out to their personal lamppost so they can 'hang out', somehow Conservatives are going to quit being suckers and vote for people who can set things right, even if that means going backward here and there to clear the seat of a particularly insidious CINO.
They aren't that much less corrosive to the workings of the free and open government of our representative republic than are muslims.
That's actually starting to make sense.
That is because we have a half-black Muslim as president and he has filled the various government agencies with freaking liberals who all hate the US.
The EPA is anti-America.
The EPA is both unconstitutional and illegal, just like the entire executive branch panoply of Czars, executive decrees and foreigners around and in the presidents chair.
The declaration of independence needs to be reissued to King Obola.
The federal government has grown so large, so pervasive, and so intrusive in American society that it no longer recognizes any restraint on its power. It simply does not care about the people except that they stay in line.
And it has not gone unnoticed that every agency of the government is like a feudal duchy, recognizing no authority over its fiefdom, and each one has its own army to back it up.
bttt
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