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2017-02-12 Government

Legislation introduced to gut most of the EPA's power

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-12 00:14|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Role back the clean air and water standards to where they were originally set. End regulatory independence in making adjustments without Congressional approval.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-12 09:24|| 2017-02-12 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 If your going to change their name simply remove the 'Environmental'. It is, after all, a government sanctioned protection racket.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-02-12 10:13|| 2017-02-12 10:13|| Front Page Top

#3 These kinds of things are set up so Congress doesn't appear to be responsible for unpopular legislation. Even though they are. Then subsequent administrations take advantage of them. And Congress continues to allow it.

Posted by gorb 2017-02-12 11:24|| 2017-02-12 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 In reviewing Judge Gorsuch's nomination to Supreme Court Justice, I came across an article that revealed his mother's work at EPA, in the Washington Post:

"As a result, she slashed the EPA’s budget by nearly a quarter and, according to a Washington Post story at the time, boasted that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/01/neil-gorsuchs-mother-once-ran-the-epa-it-was-a-disaster/

From "six inches to a half inch."

Drain the swamp.
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Posted by OregonGuy 2017-02-12 14:54|| http://oregonguythinks.blogspot.com 2017-02-12 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 gorb, you got it exactly.

I majored in Poli Sci and my first seminar course involved writing a paper on the bureaucracy and its interaction with the law. My subject matter (no comments please) was federal regulations regarding rodent control. If I remember correctly there were something like 75 laws and 15 agencies involved in the subject...........................this was in 1969.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-12 17:19|| 2017-02-12 17:19|| Front Page Top

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