Abolish the EPA now!!!
Well, that would be a starting point.
Delete Big Farming/Government Corn while you’re at it. No more ethanol fuels for Motor vehicles.
Phased out within the year and all funds sent to the states as one-time block grants, based roughly on population. Then just never fund the operation again.
EPA serves no gainful purpose for the Federal government, it is a slush fund for distribution of government largesse.
Although it is arguably a good idea, the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for environmental protection purposes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
And even if the states had constitutionally delegated such powers to the feds, it remains that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment Congress is unconstitutionally letting non-elected bureaucrats get away with harrassing the sovereign states with such powers, stolen state powers in this case.
“Abolish the EPA now!!!”
Now that would be a welcome belated Christmas present to all Americans.
The EPA need some serious your form and one critical aspect. The EPA should no longer be able to us its own lawyers to defend against lawsuits from environmental organizations because they have been losing them on purpose in order to get more regulatory power. The EPA even funds the very environmental groups that sue them through grants. The layers defending the EPA need to be a contracted group of independant lawyers that are incentivized to win. If they win they get paid well in bonuses and when they lose they can get by on their salaries.
The Epa and Obama have been engaging in is what is called “lawfare,” a portmanteau of “lawsuit” and “warfare,” a process in which administration allies sue the government in order to achieve a policy objective. In this case the legal proceedings were not unwelcome. Lawfare typically involves what amounts to “hard sell” or high pressure sales tactics. On a contrived, expedited timeline based on a false claim that action is urgently needed, the administration connived with green groups in a “sue-and-settle” arrangement that advanced the groups’ objectives. In the process, the EPA excluded “other interested parties and the public and short-circuits a more deliberate rulemaking process.
See: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259684/crushing-poor-middle-class-epa-matthew-vadum
“Abolish the EPA now!!!”
I’m NOT in favor of this. The EPA was born in the era where a river caught on fire and lakes and rivers were dying or dead. No one ever thought Lake Erie would EVER come back. If there was no EPA the US would look like the former USSR now, with large toxic wastelands and a life expectancy at least 15 years less than ours. No one wants that.
But the EPA needs to be cleaned out of nuts and scaled back to its original mission and budget, maybe at late 1970’s levels.
The left put in two “hot” words when this was established: Environmental and Protection.
How can a politician come out against those two words in today’s world.