Like The IRS The EPA Plays Favorites Also

The Washington Examiner reported Tuesday that the EPA under Ms. Jackson has a history of favoring groups that share the agency’s political agenda. “Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived,” according to the report.

Government agencies like the EPA typically waive so-called Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request fees for groups disseminating information for public benefit, but it’s up to the agency to decide whether a fee-waiver is justified. At the EPA, fees were waived for liberal environmental groups like Greenpeace and EarthJustice almost always. Meanwhile, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, “had its requests denied 93 percent of the time. One request was denied because CEI failed to express its intent to disseminate the information to the general public. The rest were denied because the agency said CEI ‘failed to demonstrate that the release of the information requested significantly increases the public understanding of government operations or activities.’”

This is important because the White House and Democrats have increasingly used regulators at the EPA to advance a green agenda that they can’t get through Congress.

Full story here. Since this is behind a paywall at the WSJ, this Daily Caller story might work for you.

Obama’s EPA And IRS Violate Our Constitutional Rights

Big Brother: The government we entrust our medical records to under ObamaCare has its EPA sharing confidential data on farmers with green groups and the IRS reading your email. Smile and wave at the EPA drone.

“They are just way on the outer limits of any authority they’ve been granted,” said Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. — Ya think???

The Administrative President. Not our leader but our prodder, you gonna do the right thing because I say so.

New EPA Rules To Add ‘9 Cents a Gallon’ to Gas

News Max writes:

New regulations to be announced by the Environmental Protection Agency Friday are set to push the already-high price of gas up by a further 9 cents a gallon, petroleum industry experts are warning.

“There is a tsunami of federal regulations coming out of the EPA that could put upward pressure on gasoline prices. EPA’s proposed fuel regulations are the latest example,” Bob Greco, director of the American Petroleum Institute Downstream Group, told Newsmax.

The regulations, aimed at reducing the amount of sulfur emissions, will add as much as 9 cents, according to industry experts, although the administration insisted the cost at the pump would be lower.

EPA Funding Climbed 51% Since 2008

If there ever was a government agency that has out lived it’s usefulness it’s Nixon’s decreed EPA.

Federal funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is up by more than half—in real dollars—since 2008, according to calculations based on Treasury Department data.

In 2008, EPA funding was $7,938,000,000, according to the Final Monthly Treasury Statement for fiscal year 2008. That would be $8,464,894,460 in real 2012 dollars, according to the BLS calculator. The same Treasury report said EPA funding climbed to $12,796,000,000 in fiscal year 2012. That’s a 51.1 percent funding increase from four years earlier. …

Read more at cnsnews.com …

EPA Funding Climbed 51% Since 2008

Federal funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is up by more than half—in real dollars—since 2008, according to calculations based on Treasury Department data.

In 2008, EPA funding was $7,938,000,000, according to the Final Monthly Treasury Statement for fiscal year 2008. That would be $8,464,894,460 in real 2012 dollars, according to the BLS calculator. The same Treasury report said EPA funding climbed to $12,796,000,000 in fiscal year 2012. That’s a 51.1 percent funding increase from four years earlier. …

Read more at cnsnews.com …

EPA Chief Who Oversaw Controversial Fracking Study Resigns

There are on-going investigations into the use of fake emails by EPA officials, up to and including former EPA head Lisa Jackson, and it appears as though that investigation may have resulted in the resignation of EPA Region Eight Director James Martin.

Martin oversaw the controversial fracking investigation in Pavilion, Wyoming, has been cited by environmental groups as evidence linking fracking to water contamination.

CHEYENNE, WYO. — A regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who oversaw investigations that involved hydraulic fracturing in Wyoming and asbestos contamination in Montana is resigning.

EPA Region Eight Director James Martin will step down Friday. Martin had announced his resignation to EPA employees last Friday.

That’s pretty common for Obama drones …

Martin says in his resignation letter it’s time for him to turn his attention to his family. Martin is resigning after more than two years in charge of EPA Region Eight, which covers Colorado, North and South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.

His resignation occurs while Republicans, including Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, investigate whether Martin and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used private email accounts to conduct official business.

This is a potentially big development. There were major flaws in the EPA’s findings in the Pavilion case, and when you have the head of the EPA using an email address under a fake name – “Richard Windsor” was Jackson’s cover – things start smelling more than a little fishy.

They rigged the stiudy, becuase our EPA could not produce real data that proved what they wanted to lie about.

when will the people catch on … looks like Congress may be.

Did you see the liberal loon Governor of Colorado, Drank fracking fluid …  trying to show how bad it was … yes it’s just water and mud.

EPA Talking Out Of Both Sides Of Their Mouth

The issue is their new rule that makes particulate emissions illegal. Yes dust.

Ban trucks or make them so expensive that only major big box stores can use them…

Sens. Vitter and Sessions write: “Maybe the biggest reason to slow down [EPA's new PM_2.5] rule is that the EPA is talking out of both sides of their mouth.

Media release and letter below. Click here for Senate EPW web site.

Vitter, Sessions Question EPA Air Regulation Rule Over Human Testing
February 5, 2013

Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow Committee member Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) in a letter today urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the science behind an economically significant new rule tightening the national ambient air quality standards for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and to hold off on implementation and enforcement.

“Maybe the biggest reason to slow down the new rule is that the EPA is talking out of both sides of their mouth. On one side exposure to it is deadly, and on the other they say human exposure studies are not harmful,” said Vitter. “It’s alarming how the EPA is purposefully and blatantly ignoring an ongoing investigation of the legality and therefore scientific legitimacy of the use of human testing. This is another example of the EPA continuing to pick and choose scientific ‘facts’ to support their overreaching agenda.”

The exposure of human test subjects to diesel exhaust emissions and concentrated airborne particles may have been done without using required protocols and proper consent. In the letter, the Senators noted their concern over EPA’s finalizing the PM2.5 rule without the Agency using the “best available science,” in addition to ignoring an ongoing EPA Office of Inspector General investigation into whether EPA properly followed applicable laws and procedures in its testing programs.

BAN DIESELS trucks is the goal and this is how they want to do it. Cooked up science.

You do know that practically everything you buy comes on diesel trucks, don’t you. Yes that’s everything at Walmart.

HOW Many People Were Killed by the EPA in the Ten Years the Since The First AW Ban Lasped

By far the biggest killers of Americans is traffic deaths. Why not ban cars?

Do you realize how many thousands of people were killed by the EPA during the tens years the AW ban had beenn allowed to expire, because it did not work?

Do you know how many 1000′s of lives were saved by CCW holders in the same period.

Low information voters, pay attention.

Why? Because their cars were too lightweight for the task intended. How many crashes when unintentional deathes resulted from ridiculous fuel economy standards. Because one of the most effective ways to meet EPA standards, is with lighter cars.

Remember physics does not bend well. F= ma. If you are on the wrong end of that you are gonna die. The only hope is a more weighty car.

I dirve a 5,000 lb. SUV, to just piss off a liberal the most. It gets a bout 25 MPG on the highway, because it is fulltime four wheel drive. About 18-20 MPG in city driving.

So why not ban cars, it would save far more lives than any wet dream AW ban would?

Whynot just issue all the people in the country their own little government approved rubber cocoon where they cab sit quitely all day and consume government propaganda? At least we would all be safe.

Biofuels bust

The New Times reports that a judge has decided that the US Environmental Protection Agency is a bad joke. The EPA’s biofuels mandate has been officially ruled to be absurd, because of its requirement that fuel companies incorporate cellulosic ethanol in their products whether it was possible to buy such ethanol or not.

A federal appeals court threw out a federal rule on renewable fuels on Friday, saying that a quota set by theEnvironmental Protection Agency for incorporating liquids made from woody crops and wastes into car and truck fuels was based on wishful thinking rather than realistic estimates of what could be achieved.

Heads will not roll, however. This is the government we are talking about.

Judge Rules EPA Can’t Mandate Use Of Nonexistent Biofuels

Just when the USA has oil coming out of everywhere, due in part to fracking and horizontal drilling technology on PRIVATE LANDS in North Dakota. And you don’t even want to know what natural gas we have found….

The EPA wants to mandate we use a new non-existant fuel for our cars, because Obama says so … How neat is it to be dictator of the USA. Look another executive order, and poof he can do anything he wants, with us.

Yes it’s just the start … A judge ruled, remember in the case of Gulf drilling ban???