[VOA]

NO FLIPPIN WAY. Everyone at the EPA is not only a genius but they are 'invincible'.

I have two chemist buddies that I went through undergraduate school with that
work for the EPA.
They are conservative types, honest to a fault about their chemical analysis work.

But over the last ten years, I can tell they've fallen into a bit of the EPA
"party line". Mind you, I'm glad they are there instead of the chem. grads from
some sort of liberal think tank like Harvard.

But there is a continual need for agencies like the EPA to scare us.
Otherwise, we might realize that we only need an EPA of about 1/4 the size of what it is today.

[phasma proeliator]

I have two very close friends who USED to work at EPA. The politics drove them into private business.

EPA truely is a "monster". I'm not saying that they shouldn't exist - but they need to be slapped back into reality and dropped in size considerably. - IMHO

[Wonder Warthog]

"I have two chemist buddies that I went through undergraduate school with that work for the EPA. They are conservative types, honest to a fault about their chemical analysis work."

The problem is that it isn't those kinds of folks who produce this stuff. It is mid-level bureaucrats. The EPA, far more than almost any other Federal department, is infested with liberal eco-nuts. Besides which, the EPA is NOT qualified to undertake this kind of analysis--for an honest appraisal, you need to talk to geophysicists and geochemists, not "pollution control" chemists.