What’s good for the goose is good for the EPA
Nobody likes to see pollution, especially when it comes from a massive accident such as an oil spill that contaminates water and land.
But if the spill of 3 million gallons of contaminated wastewater that was accidentally unleashed near Silverton, Colorado, in early August 2015 had to happen, aren’t you glad the Environmental Protection Agency was responsible for it?
For decades now, this self-righteous organization – consisting of unelected officials who have inexplicably been given ridiculous amounts of power – has been creating serious problems for plenty of law-abiding Americans.
The EPA, with the full blessing of President Obama and other liberals determined to save a planet that existed just fine for billions of years before they were born, has been on a borderline-psychotic mission to destroy the coal industry.
Along with it, they have ruined the careers of many Americans. In fact, entire communities have been devastated by unrealistic emissions regulations the EPA has established. But now it’s the EPA that has turned the Animas River bright orange with wastewater while investigating pollutants at the Gold King Mine.
So, do you think the EPA will fine itself millions or billions of dollars, as it would have tried to do to the operators of a coalmine or power plant if they had caused this damage?
Will the EPA publicly scold itself for this enormous transgression against nature? Will the EPA’s loyal followers stop hugging trees long enough to criticize the agency for this grievous offense?
Of course not. Other than a brief admission of its “mistake,” it will be business as usual for this sanctimonious agency.
Here’s a multiple-choice question for you. What would you like to see done to the EPA as payback for its wastewater spill in Colorado?
A.) Nothing. It was an honest mistake.
B.) Funding for the EPA should be reduced by 25 percent.
C.) The EPA commissioner should be fired.
D.) The EPA should be completely disbanded
The EPA is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!
The executives are, by the Bill/Law which established this pariahital agency, can NOT be fired nor held responsible in any way for cooking lies about supposed threats to the environment which in turn enhance their individual ego drives or are a “backdoor” to more money in the coffers of the agency and in turn to the whole agency!
If I could i can refer to the actions of another agency’s irresponsibility… namely the Ag department.
In the early 1960’s a gentleman in England developed a new strain of honeybee which was found to be more productive while being of a mild temper. It was known as the “Buckfast”.
Now to my understanding that ANY agricultural animal, vegetable or other life life form must be vetted clean and safe when it enters the U.S.
We now have several forms of life (mostly microscopic) which North American honeybees are now dying from. Put this together with new crop pest chemicals which are systemic and are being used for plants which we eat daily and the honeybee populations are dwindling.
So… where was the Ag Department?? when the Buckfast Queens were shipped??? We DID have microscopes of high quality back then, didn’t we???
The EPA should be completely disbanded
The EPC should be non profit! Yes you read correctly, environmental protection critters.
They have way too much authority – they shut down ranches because they won’t allow cows to drink out of a creek for fear a cow may ‘poop’ too close to or heaven forbid in the creek. (In reality cows keep the vegitation managable & allow the creeks to flow better) I’m thinking they must all be vegitatrians. Yet they dump hundreds of thousands of gallons of mag chloride on the roads which end up in the creeks and rivers, that’s ok? Oh & don’t drive through the puddle in your driveway as they claim they own ALL the rights to ALL the water in the USA The EPA needs to be shut down now.
I briefly read this article and have followed similar articles on WND. Overall expressing one’s opinion and calling for action tends to be more ‘word’ than ‘action’. Such agencies need to be held accountable but who is the enforcer? The agency authority does not rest with congress since most were created by another department perhaps often with no approval of congress. Therefore the ‘creator’ of the agencies should also be ‘contained and punished’ for allowing such ‘unchecked authority’ to occur. I do not see any of this ‘change’ happening with the current administration which is obsessed with greed and power.
Abolish the EPA! They are not needed. They have already turned over primacy for water & wastewater to the individual states. All that is left is air quality. Turn over primacy in air quality to the states and abolish the EPA. Just like water quality, air quality should be the job of the states. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say anything about air quality & water quality being run by the federal government. That is one of the things “reserved to the States and & the People!”
The only thing the federal government is to run is the post office, and look at the mess they’ve made of it!
Don’t disband them, assemble a class action suit, sue them in federal court using their own laws and regulations, file an exception to their supposed immunity to prosecution for being a federal government agency . Site in the federal court filing’s the extenuating circumstances and the level of devastation and harm caused directly by their action’s. Maybe nothing will happen from it, but maybe a few heads will roll from the backlash from such a lawsuit. That’s my two cents!
That’s what SHOULD be done. Make an example that shouts “NO individual or agency or department is immune from their actions and consequences.” But can you find lawyers who don’t fear for their lives?
I say disband and start over with a very small board that is held accountable to Congress. This should be done for all agencies. It is Congress that makes laws per the Constitution, not some agency.
As for those who caused the spill, huge fines or jail time.
We all know who will pay for this “mistake”—either the local communities where the spill happened, or the whole nation of middle class tax payers. It’s time to disband the EPA, as well as most of the other alphabet soup of federal agencies, and let the court system take care of anyone who is harmed by another’s carelessness or irresponsibility. These regulatory agencies may have originally been founded with good intentions, but now serve primarily to increase bureaucratic red tape, raise the cost of doing business, and line the pockets of politicians.
I say we disband the EPA. I wish we could force all of those pig-dogs to drink every drop of the foul pollutants that they let leak into the river (and other places)! What a bunch of lying self righteous hypocritical losers!
Dear Frank,,
As you know, I live in Colorado, although I am way out in the eastern plains, not the western slope where this occurred.
Still, I’ve been following this disaster as we have friends over there and WE USED TO LOVE FISHING THERE.
However … the fish were wiped out. Towns that use the river water and connected reservoirs water for municipal systems and farm irrigation are contaminated. Worse yet, the cities and irrigation districts are being stuck with cleanup costs.
The pollution they caused went all the way to the Gulf of Mexico via the Colorado River.
The crowning glory is … the EPA has filed huge files and actions against the mine owners … for their little boo boo! The owners were force a decade ago to CLOSE those mines by the EPA and had the pollutants properly contain, until the EPA itself went in and messed around.
The EPA, while holding hands with the Bureau of Land Management (another corrupt and powerful agency) also rounded up and privately owned cattle when they closed down all water wells that had been watering cattle since the 1800’s.
IT IS NUTS WHAT THESE OUT OF CONTROL AGENCIES ARE DOING TO FARMER AND RANCHERS ACROSS THE FLY-OVER STATES THAT PRODUCE 80% OF THE NATIONS FOOD!
THE EPA (and several other bogus agencies) NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED COMPLETELY and/or restructures and made accountable to Congress for their actions.
The reason we never hear about this is crap is, those regions are sparsely populated and the people affected are predominantly hard line Conservatives, Independents and Republicans!
God Save America,
Orrin
The EPA doesn’t give a rat’s bun about the people or the environment when you look at the history and results of their actions. Whose pockets are lined? Who is funding them? They’re no different than the FDA. Disband them all and start over with some honest people who care and base their actions and recommendations on facts, real evidence, not blatant lies and deceptions. FDA-another good subject…..and why would food and drugs be categorized together? I’m sure the FDA and the EPA approve of Monsanto’s pesticides and GMO products as well.
I think we should disband the EPA. I worked for them and now how crooked and deceiptful they are. There is no real science at the EPA.
The Epa shold be abolished. Those that caused this contamination in the Co. river should be put in jail for at least 25 years and bared from ever again holding anykind of public office.
An “Honest Mistake”?? Who in hell do they (the EPA) think they are? I was born and raised in the west and can testify that as soon as the EPA or the BLM and their friends get involved in our “problems”, those same problems get worse by at least 10 fold. There is nothing more dishonest, inefficient, self serving, etc. than a federal agency looking out for the publics interest.
I don’t think we should disband the EPA – Just hold them accountable to “We the people.”
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
– Ronald Reagan