Posted on 02/28/2017 7:06:57 AM PST by rktman
That's one of the few things they are right about. Nobody ever gets out of this life alive!
Excellent! Burn down the administrative state, and especially the job-killing, self-polluting EPA.
The biggest take away from this article is a link to the very liberal think tank Brookings where Brookings goes on to explain that:
over 90% OF EPA PROGRAMS ARE CONTROLLED A-Z BY STATE AGENCIES!!
So, back to the original question. Do we need the EPA for anything??? NO!
I am hoping he cuts the EPA staff and budget in half. An 18% staff reduction and 24% budget cut is a great start. He just needs to do another round of cutting in 2019. It is easierpr to do in pieces than all at once.
I disagree. The problem is how EPA interprets the Congressional law.
We have judicial activists on the federal courts like the 9th Circuit, who interpret the law wildly different from anything Congress wrote. Well, EPA is full of environmental activists doing the same thing.
That said, it would be useful if the present Congress would amend the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act with explicit prohibitions on the abuses the EPA has indulged in, but there will always be a parade of environmental activists seeking employment at Fed EPA, and then promoting under commie liberal DemocRAT presidential administrations.
With both houses of Congress, it would be nice to legislate against the abpuses by EPA. Then move on to ATF while at it. They severely abuse the law with their interpretations.
Sorry but I disagree.
If Congress passes laws that grant to, and direct, the executive branch to make “interpretations” of the written law then it is Congress which is at fault.
A law that says “the United States will have clean air, and the President is directed to issue regulations to bring this about” is not even really a law, since you cannot read it and know what is allowed, what is forbidden, and what the consequences of any act or omission by you may be.
<>Fix Congress and you won’t have to fix the EPA.<>
Agree. And to fix congress requires an Article V Convention of the States.
Clean Air Acts were passed in 1955, 1963, 1970, and 1990.
Here is the text for just 1970. It is hardly an open-ended sentence giving the Executive capricious powers.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-84/pdf/STATUTE-84-Pg1676.pdf
and this is just one of the years amendments. Never mind the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal protection Act, and the Montreal Protocol to phase out Ozone, etc. Around 30 of them. All with a deep body of provisions the EPA can distort for their own purposes and a judge has to interpret every time the EPA sues somebody.
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