EPA chief says agency will ‘effectively shut down'
Irony: 2 days after killing coal jobs, EPA chief says agency will ‘effectively shut down’ without stopgap funding by Oct.1
Huffington Post reports:
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says the
agency will “effectively shut down” unless Congress approves stopgap
funding by Oct. 1.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the agency won’t be able to pay
employees. She says only a core group of people will remain on duty in
case the EPA has to respond to a “significant emergency.” The vast
majority of employees will stay home.
That means that most of EPA’s functions, like drafting regulations
and enforcing laws to protect the environment, will likely remain
stalled until government operations fully resume.
We're all gonna die I tell ya, we're all gonna die!
ReplyDeleteLets save some money and get rid of the whole agency...
DeleteLet's save even more with getting rid of most government agencies.
DeleteThe EPA already delegates a lot of it's authority to some of the states. They work hand in hand with other regulatory agencies. A few days of furloughs won't curtail a lot of the regulatory activities. Environmental laws must be passed by congress. As such, there is definitely a heavy influence on the making of these laws by the lobbyists. These folks pay a mighty sum to our congressmen to protect the interests of the companies they represent.
ReplyDeleteEnvironmental laws must be passed by congress.
ReplyDeleteThis is tru under most administrations.
This EPA under the Obama administration has found it necessary to operate under the congressional radar by using phony email accounts.
Over reaching it's authority is the norm.
Just in case you dont believe in the abuse of power by the EPA,Here is just one story of which there are many many more.
ReplyDeleteLast summer, I wrote about the Environmental Protection Agency’s shameful persecution of a Texas natural-gas company, Range Resources Corp. The year before, EPA had slapped the company with an “emergency order” under the Safe Drinking Water Act, alleging that it “caused or contributed to” the contamination of two water wells west of Fort Worth. Almost immediately, however, EPA was forced to admit that Range had no connection whatsoever to the contamination in question. It nonetheless insisted on the company’s obedience to the original order.
I argued then that this was all a shameful abuse of power. Well, just last week, after a nearly two-year odyssey in which the company has spent $4.2 million defending itself, EPA agreed to drop the whole thing. The withdrawal of the emergency order was officially announced at the end of last week, where the government usually tries to bury its embarrassments. But the question remains: Why now?
rojay, multiply your story of Range Resources experience with the EPA by thousands of cases nationwide and the reason for lower GDP in our country becomes apparent.
DeleteWilliam.....Yes ! If you Google EPA abuse of power,be ready for one hell of a lot of reading!
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