[Tangerine Time Machine]

"It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research."

That's it, blame your underling. The fact that people in charge of environmental policy in this community (including the city manager) are this ignorant of actual science is disturbing. What do they base their decisions on? Greenpeace slogans?

Bozos like this flooded the Park Service and EPA during the Clinton years, displacing real scientists, and getting them out will be a real bitch.

[GladesGuru]

" - getting them out will be a real bitch."

Not a bit*h at all. Just shut down the agency and start over. Once their salary stops, they will go away.