EPA Incompetence Could Cost Taxpayers Nearly $30 Billion

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 08/19/2015 | John Merline

[IBD editorial writer]

Soon after it released 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater into Colorado's Animas River, the Environmental Protection Agency tried to downplay the damage.

[mad_as_he$$]

Exactly as they planned. Need to have a new super fund site to keep the $$$ flowing. After all we have a plan to run all humans out of the basin anyway.

[Arm_Bears]

If this were a private company, and occurred during a Republican administration, we’d be hearing about it 24/7.

[Chode]

every penny should come out of their budget!!! if they have to shut down, so be it...

[rarestia]

The left, and ESPECIALLY social media, are spinning this as being the fault of the mine operator and that the EPA was there to do an inspection when the wastewater dam broke. I can’t seem to find a true accounting of what happened.

[Smokin' Joe]

Oh. THAT incompetence.

It is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until they finish rolling out the emissions standards for methane.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

For this one incident.

I would imagine the EPA imposes fines and/or costs 20-30 times that annually as the cost of its regulations.

[mad_as_he$$]

http://www.silvertonstandard.com/news.php?id=847

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3323794/posts

[raybbr]

Look downstream to see who’s going to benefit from the spill and the money.

[kevslisababy]

But thank God that they are going to protect us from our BBQ grills!

[Lockbox]

If a private company causes such damage I could boycott them, how do I boycott the EPA?

[DaveA37]

“...every penny should come out of their budget!!!”...

There would be NO budget and NO EPA if I had the chance.

[hal ogen]

So the EPA is the largest polluter in the SW of the US? Great. Just great.

[Busko]

Nothing will happen to the Brown Shirt Goose Steppers, they are part of the machine!

[Chode]

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