To #10. You’ve hit the problem on the head. There was nothing wrong with the original intent of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and the EPA in general.
However, they degenerated into a typical govt bureaucratic power grab and then they went ballistic with it.
The Sahkett Case is, hopefully going to castrate the EPA re the extension of the Wetlands sites definitions.
Other issues to watch out for include:
*attacks on the use of diesel fuel in trucks, trains and even aircraft, boats, etc. EPA will try to impose impossible to meet mileage and pollution limits.
*Extensions of the “navigable waters” definition further inland re the Rapano case.
*Imposing more “acid rain” rules when they have already reached their most effectiveness and now are on the downward side of any significant improvements.
*Attacking all coal mining re mercury pollution (a real issue) instead of working with industry to curb it. The idea is to destroy the coal industry and coal-based energy plants, and instead replace them with “green” crap.
* Promote ultra-expensive highspeed rail lines to nowhere like the California fiasco now under way.
* Promote more than 15% Ethanol usage though it can be destructive to certain types of engines and has already shot prices up on grain-based foods (my cat food has gone up over 20 cents per can, even for the cheap stuff, in the past few months, and the good stuff now in running in the 60’s cents to over a dollar. Same for bagged dry catfood.
* Destruction of the family farm through new lower levels of the “death tax” on real estate left for heirs. Might be a payoff to Big Agriculture (if they supported Obama and his criminal organization).
I’ve been involved in environmental cleanup cases for over 20 years and have seen the EPA knowlingly operate under horribly constructed laws until they were forced to reform them to some degree of legal sanity. How much damage the EPA has done to our economy is debatable but it is massive, and it negates the good that they have done.
Only a constricted EPA, run by someone who actually likes business, will help to revise this deliberately marxist planned crippling of our free enterprise system.
Only criminal convictions in the Solyndra and other “energy” company kickback cases will stop this type of economic criminal enterprise orchestrated by the White House and the marxist energy czars Obama had hired. THe Dept. of Energy needs a complete purge at the top as does the Dept. of Agriculture and Interior, to name a few.
The rot that is inside our government today at the highest levels in the worst I’ve ever seen since I first worked for the government in the 1960’s. The honest government worker is taking unjustified heat for what the Obama regime has imposed on them from above.
Getting rid of Jackson and Browner and Hansen and Holdren and Chu and Vilsack and Salazar is just the start. But we’ve got to start somewhere or our economy will implode, which is what Comrade Obama wants.
To #10. You’ve hit the problem on the head. There was nothing wrong with the original intent of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and the EPA in general.
However, they degenerated into a typical govt bureaucratic power grab and then they went ballistic with it.
The Sakhett Case is, hopefully going to castrate the EPA re the extension of the Wetlands sites definitions.
Other issues to watch out for include:
*attacks on the use of diesel fuel in trucks, trains and even aircraft, boats, etc. EPA will try to impose impossible to meet mileage and pollution limits.
*Extensions of the “navigable waters” definition further inland re the Rapano case.
*Imposing more “acid rain” rules when they have already reached their most effectiveness and now are on the downward side of any significant improvements.
*Attacking all coal mining re mercury pollution (a real issue) instead of working with industry to curb it. The idea is to destroy the coal industry and coal-based energy plants, and instead replace them with “green” crap.
* Promote ultra-expensive highspeed rail lines to nowhere like the California fiasco now under way.
* Promote more than 15% Ethanol usage though it can be destructive to certain types of engines and has already shot prices up on grain-based foods (my cat food has gone up over 20 cents per can, even for the cheap stuff, in the past few months, and the good stuff now in running in the 60’s cents to over a dollar. Same for bagged dry catfood.
* Destruction of the family farm through new lower levels of the “death tax” on real estate left for heirs. Might be a payoff to Big Agriculture (if they supported Obama and his criminal organization).
I’ve been involved in environmental cleanup cases for over 20 years and have seen the EPA knowlingly operate under horribly constructed laws until they were forced to reform them to some degree of legal sanity. How much damage the EPA has done to our economy is debatable but it is massive, and it negates the good that they have done.
Only a constricted EPA, run by someone who actually likes business, will help to revise this deliberately marxist planned crippling of our free enterprise system.
Only criminal convictions in the Solyndra and other “energy” company kickback cases will stop this type of economic criminal enterprise orchestrated by the White House and the marxist energy czars Obama had hired. THe Dept. of Energy needs a complete purge at the top as does the Dept. of Agriculture and Interior, to name a few.
The rot that is inside our government today at the highest levels in the worst I’ve ever seen since I first worked for the government in the 1960’s. The honest government worker is taking unjustified heat for what the Obama regime has imposed on them from above.
Getting rid of Jackson and Browner and Hansen and Holdren and Chu and Vilsack and Salazar is just the start. But we’ve got to start somewhere or our economy will implode, which is what Comrade Obama wants.