Edgetho
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Our Government Agencies are supposed to serve us without a political agenda.
We get enough politics in this Country through fights in the House, Senate and Executive offices.
But here's the deal.... They're elected. Therefore -- They're accountable.
I can vote against my Congressman, my Senator and the sitting POTUS.
But I can't vote against a bureaucracy that is not responding to the wishes of the people.
You know, agencies like the IRS. Or, in this case, the EPA.
This is how they do it. In fairness, they've been doing this on a small scale basis for a while now. But lately, it's been on steroids. Coincidence, huh?
Like the lady who started 'True The Vote', filed for 501(c)4 status and got visited by four government agencies for the first time in her life within Months? Yeah, some coincidence
How the EPA Helps Environmental Groups Sue the EPA
Much more at the link including multiple links to substantiate their claims.
People, the EPA needs to be taken apart. It needs to be dissolved, destroyed if necessary.
Do we need someone looking out for us when it comes to businesses careleslly and thoughtlessly polluting? Of course.
But this agency has turned into just another dimocrap scam, stealing money and pushing environMENTAL solutions to common, everyday problems.
The EPA has to go
We get enough politics in this Country through fights in the House, Senate and Executive offices.
But here's the deal.... They're elected. Therefore -- They're accountable.
I can vote against my Congressman, my Senator and the sitting POTUS.
But I can't vote against a bureaucracy that is not responding to the wishes of the people.
You know, agencies like the IRS. Or, in this case, the EPA.
This is how they do it. In fairness, they've been doing this on a small scale basis for a while now. But lately, it's been on steroids. Coincidence, huh?
Like the lady who started 'True The Vote', filed for 501(c)4 status and got visited by four government agencies for the first time in her life within Months? Yeah, some coincidence
How the EPA Helps Environmental Groups Sue the EPA
Recently released emails show extensive collaboration between federal environmental regulators and environmental groups:
Emails show EPA used official events to help environmentalist groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking, incorporated advance copies of letters drafted by those groups into official statements, and worked with environmentalists to publicly pressure executives of at least one energy company.
The disclosures are already causing controversy, with claims that EPA and environmentalist groups collaborated to ensure that new EPA regulations involving carbon capture and storage would effectively kill coal projects.
But the symbiotic relationship between EPA and environmentalist has been going on for quite some time. Every major federal environmental law, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, contains provisions allowing private organizations to sue the EPA if they believe it is not going far enough in protecting air quality. Environmentalist groups do this frequently. And yet, all too often, when the EPA is sued by environmentalist groups, it folds without putting up much of a fight. As former EPA official Jeffrey Holmstead has explained matters, often the suits involve things the EPA wants to do anyway. By inviting a lawsuit and then signing a consent decree, the agency gets legal cover from the political heat.
According to a 2013 report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sue and settle has become a common practice: EPA chose at some point not to defend itself in lawsuits brought by special interest advocacy groups at least 60 times between 2009 and 2012. In each case, it agreed to settlements on terms favorable to those groups. These settlements directly resulted in EPA agreeing to publish more than 100 new regulations, many of which impose compliance costs in the tens of millions and even billions of dollars.
Suing the EPA can be a lucrative business. The Equal Access to Justice Act, as well as other cost shifting provisions in the Clean Air Act, allow activist groups to collect their attorneys fees in these suits if they can show that the EPAs position was not substantially justified.
According to a 2011 GAO report, between 1998 and 2010 the Department of Justice spent $43 million defending against suits brought by environmentalist groups, some of which have raked in millions in attorneys fees. Often, fees are awarded even in cases where the EPA merely missed a statutory deadline or made some other procedural error, rather than being substantively wrong.
Much more at the link including multiple links to substantiate their claims.
People, the EPA needs to be taken apart. It needs to be dissolved, destroyed if necessary.
Do we need someone looking out for us when it comes to businesses careleslly and thoughtlessly polluting? Of course.
But this agency has turned into just another dimocrap scam, stealing money and pushing environMENTAL solutions to common, everyday problems.
The EPA has to go