[TheRealThing]

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson---

"All too often, low-income, minority and Native Americans live in the shadows of our society's worst pollution, facing disproportionate health impacts and greater obstacles to economic growth in communities that can’t attract businesses and new jobs. Expanding the conversation on environmentalism and working for environmental justice are some of my top priorities for the work of the EPA, and we're glad to have President Obama's leadership and the help of our federal partners in this important effort," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "Every agency has a unique and important role to play in ensuring that all communities receive the health and environmental protections they deserve. Our broad collaboration will mean real progress for overburdened communities."

Read more---http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf...enDocument

Ever heard the word sustainability being brandied about by government officials? How about environmental justice? It seems left wing special interest groups consider the EPA 'their' department. And, have developed a strategy to speed up the process of accomplishing at least some of their most favored battle ground issues. Left wingers have taken to suing the EPA for percieved dangers, socially and environmentally, to get quick results for items on the liberal agenda. It has been reported that the EPA has settled with those liberal groups suing the EPA for whatever reason that self same day. Talk about fast results! Case in point; the EPA was sued recently for the use of lead in ammunition in America. The suit claimed the lead bullets were contaminating ground water and poisoning wildlife. This suit was obviously a thinly veiled attempt at gun control by gun control advocates. Fortunately, the NRA got wind of the shenanigan and thwarted the efforts of the EPA to ban bullets.

These agencies are the new avenue of attack on the American way of life. Government agencies and czars with unfathomable power. Enacting and enforcing over 900 executive orders emanating out of the Obama White House, along with tactics such as the one outlined above. IMO, we're toast if O is reelected.

[WideRight05]

Power, power, and more power. Should be done away with.

[vundy33]

I like that we have an organization that helps keep our country clean, but they have been going way to far for years. This chick sounds political...that's not her job.

[Benchwarmer]

The EPA. They have to much control and no one to answer to.

[nky]

Doesn't Native Americans live on land they control? The US government has no control over their land

[RunItUpTheGut]

The EPA is the closest thing you can get to a 21st century Hitler.

[Granny Bear]

EPA is much like everything else. It was a good idea and a needed entity, and probably did a good job for the first few years.

But power, money, greed etc. swayed them to what they are today; and they are totally unrecognizeable from they were and what they should be.

[judgementday]

EPA is much like everything else. It was a good idea and a needed entity, and probably did a good job for the first few years.

But power, money, greed etc. swayed them to what they are today; and they are totally unrecognizeable from they were and what they should be.

IMO, this also describes the US Government.

[vector]

The EPA is the closest thing you can get to a 21st century Hitler.

this is one of the stupidest post i have read hitler killed 50 millon people

[WideMiddle03]

this is one of the stupidest post i have read hitler killed 50 millon people

amen

[TheRealThing]

EPA is much like everything else. It was a good idea and a needed entity, and probably did a good job for the first few years.

But power, money, greed etc. swayed them to what they are today; and they are totally unrecognizeable from they were and what they should be.

You're right and yet they are more than that. As far as anybody knows they have unlimited power/authority to enforce 'and define' any kind of evironmental situation they see fit. They have the power to decide whether a company, or other entity's activities threaten the environment. The EPA is therefore limited only to how creative their imagination may be, as to the number of ways they can control American industry. What makes them particularly dangerous is that they don't answer to anybody except maybe the president of the United States. The administrator of the EPA is considered a Cabinet level post (even though it is not really a cabinet position) and is appointed by the president. Further, the agency has approximately 17,000 full-time employees, and engages many more people on a contractual basis. More than half of EPA human resources are engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists; other groups include legal, public affairs, financial, and information technologists. [Wiki] They've got enough clout to be much more than a formidable opponent.

When one considers that the administrator of this nearly autonomous and vaugly defined super agency, was appointed by Obama, it is clear how he could very conveniently wage his war on coal. BTW, we taxpayers give them a whopping 8.7 billion dollar war chest from which to operate every year, not counting a vast amount of money in fines.

[Granny Bear]

Enforce and define....I did not know that.
And answers to no one???
How did I miss this!!

[TheRealThing]

Enforce and define....I did not know that.
And answers to no one???
How did I miss this!!

LOL, the EPA is a bit of a mystery to most folks. Just keep in mind that though they have been counterproductive to America of late, in that they have overreached. They are likely a reflection of their presidentially appointed administrator, who was placed there to execute the president's agenda. Even though this may be the case, many times in recent past they have exacted punitive actions against industry, based on ideas some would say are speculative with regard to harming the environment. For example, the idea that green house gases cause global warming is still an unproven theory. Our way of life however, is none the less on the chopping block, due to over-the-top EPA regulations, that are intended to save us from man made global warming. Again, an idea that is totally unproven. Ironically the EPA stands a much better chance of bringing this nation to it's knees than Hitler's Axis of Powers did, because most don't see the EPA as a threat.

If one was in a jeep, 50 miles out in the desert with a five gallons of gas in a jerry can and his engine had just begun to sputter, being in the throes of running out of gas. Faced with the choice of refueling or trying to walk 50 miles through the desert heat. How much sense would it make to stop and walk around to the back where the jerry can is mounted. Release it and dump all the contents out onto the sand? That is the picture I get when I consider the stupidity of Americans where fossil fuels are concerned. We need them, they are vital to our continued existence and yet we are in the process of outlawing their use. I don't get it.