[DBrow]

“rough-and-ready estimates are better than nothing and are often sufficient for policy-making.”

Uh-oh! Once a regulation gets put in, it stays. California declared isopropyl alcohol (you know, rubbing alcohol at the grocery store) to be a carcinogen, so every grocery, CVS, and Walgreens has a sign outside declaring that “this facility contains a chemical recognized to be a carcinogen”.

EPA will go so political with their “rough and ready estimates” that they’ll expand their power even more.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Aw sheesh!!!!!! I don’t wanna talk about the epa right now! I just finished up their monthly reports which are due tomorrow. I’ve been dealing with them since their inception, and have a decent rapport with the couple people I have to deal with. But they’re jerks! They come out for their yearly inspection,,,, no problems,,,, friendly as all get out. But,,,, they just have to show their value to the bureaucracy! They then write a report, complaining about stoopid, piddlin’ stuff,,,,like “There should be 6” more dirt piled around Wellhead #4. Argggggh!

[alloysteel]

Let us hope EPA never gets around to regulating the allowable level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Oh. They already have?

Plant life everywhere bemoans the restrictions put on their potential for growth.

Yeah, right. Plants got feelings, and they vote? Who knew?

[fireman15]

Many substances are harmless at low dosages but lethal at a certain level. Aspirin is a good example. Low dosages taken every day are helpful to many people but higher dosages taken every day can be harmful and if you take enough at once it will kill you. The problem with the EPA’s models are that they will extrapolate down from a lethal dose and claim that a tiny dose is harmful in many cases even when there is ample data to show that their assumptions are not valid. The EPA is run by politically motivated bureaucrats not scientists. Even their bonafied “environmental scientists” are often politically motivated ideologues whose judgment is clouded by a hidden radical agenda.