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"You are living in a fantasy world"

Actually, I had 31 hours of college chemistry and a career in industrial chemicals, working in both consumables and capital equipment. I've been retired for a while now.

The first time I worked in pollution control and abatement was before the Clean Air Act. My employer transferred me to CA where Rule 66 was being implemented. I had decades of experience dealing with both federal and state environmental codes as well as OSHA, fire, and electrical code

One needs to look no further than the “debate” over “global warming” to see how far the EPA has gone off the tracks since you retired. The surface temperature data that we have available even as manipulated and flawed as it is... still shows no statistically sinificant warming for approximately 18 years. Yet our EPA and Obama still insist that CO2 is a harmful polutant that is causing irreversable damage. Where is the measurable data that supports this belief? It does not exist.

Yet you call this type of argument, “rightwing rhetoric”. I actually work on a hazmat team. My interaction with the people I come into contact with, the technicians who work with the EPA have mostly been positive. Unfortunately, the technicians make up only a very small percentage of people working for the EPA. I have had conversations with some of the technicians and in some most they are as appalled as I am over what is going on at the administrative level.

I would also like to add that the EPA was started to address real problems. I remember when I was a teenager and my family drove to Disneyland for vacation. From the hills surrounding Los Angeles I can still remember seeing the huge layer of smog in the valley... and that was a bad thing. Unfotunately the government bureaucracy that was spawned by President Nixon morphed into something that has gone out of control and whose leadership has lost touch with the original intent... They need to be reigned in and I can guarantee that Obama is more than sympathetic to their new agenda has no desire or intention to do anything about the problem.