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EPA Owns the American Lung Association
EPA owns the American Lung Association Posted on March 15, 2011 by Steve Milloy
At today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee mark-up of the Upton-Inhofe bill to strip EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) tried to defend the EPA by offering a recent American Lung Association poll that purports to show public opinion favoring the EPA.
What Congress needs to know, however, is that the American Lung Association is bought-and-paid-for by the EPA. In the last 10 years, the EPA has given the ALA $20,405,655, according to EPA records.
The master-servant relationship between the EPA and ALA extends back to at least the early 1990s. As John Merline reported in Investors Business Daily (Jan. 28, 1997), between 1990 and 1995, the EPA gave the American Lung Association $5 million — even though the ALA was suing the EPA at the time. Although not many grantors give grants to organizations that sue them, at least in the regular world, the EPA likes to be sued by its buddies because such lawsuits invariably expand the agency’s powers.
So it’s not really surprising (or meaningful) that the ALA issued a poll supporting the EPA.
A list of the grants from EPA to what I call activist groups:
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oarm/igms_egf.nsf/Reports/Non-Profit+Grants?OpenView
Ever notice how problems like this disappear when the governmnet follows the Constitution?
Under what authority does EPA give money to ALA?
The founders thought all of this through already.
I’ve read that increased asthma in children can be linked to increased occurrence of ROACHES and Roach DROPPINGS in the home.....(wait....is the “administration” going to appoint a “cleanliness-Czar”? Bets on for who it’s gonna be!!!!))