At the proposed head of the EPA transition team. Good day all. As we all know, (and as the Progressive Liberal Democrats have said, repeatedly), Elections have consequences. Now the jackboot is on the other foot and the first government agency is about to get it in the back of the head.
President-Elect Trump has announced the name of the person who will be heading up the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency, and he is not a friend of theirs. The person chosen is Myron Ebell and he is not a follower of the Church of Global Warming Climate Change, (Aloha Algore! Algore be Praised!). Here are the details of the announcement from The Hill:
President-elect Donald Trump has named Myron Ebell to head up his transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The news was met with name-calling, even though Ebell agrees with the same position taken by a former top scientist with the Obama administration, Steve Koonin (formerly of Cal Tech) namely, that scientists simply do not know what fraction of observed global warming is due to manmade CO2 emissions.
Consequently, Ebell has expressed concern about EPA positions, including the Clean Power Plan. The EPA’s controversial power plan is based on an inadequate understanding of global warming and should not drive our middle class into energy poverty against congressional will.
Oh that one is apostasy as far as the rank and file fanatics in the EPA are concerned. After all, they are the ones who know best how to take care of The Earth, and why should they answer the likes of Congress? Well, it looks like they’ve just been informed in a very straightforward manner, via a kick to the balls, that they answer to Congress, not the other way around.
According to the author of the post, Donald van der Vaart, who is the Secretary of North Carolina’s Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources, he states that the EPA has to move away from the top down, rule from above and return things back to the states as was intended.
History has demonstrated time and again that just as “all politics is local,” so is environmental protection. State and local governments know best how to apply the many tools available to protect the environment and public health. In fact, states are responsible for the vast majority of enforcement and write nearly all the permits through which the private sector protects us and our environment. We still need the EPA, but not the EPA of the past.
Now that’s yet another kick to the balls of the EPA. Do you know who came up with the phrase “All politics is local”? Why that would be the former left wing Democrat speaker of the house, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neil.
Returning control of our environment to the states also limits the dark money from self-serving lobbyists and deep-pocketed special interest groups masquerading as environmentalists. Almost every major rule making under the Obama administration was driven by a sue-and-settle scheme that is designed to allow special interest and federal appointees to write rules in private and exclude citizen involvement. This was evident by the EPA’s shameful use of secret emails whereby high-ranking EPA officials used fictitious email accounts to communicate with special interest groups to avoid the reach of public records.
That goes back to the Clinton Administration, (The only one thankfully) when former EPA head Carol Browner did everything she could to destroy documents regarding her tenure as head of the EPA. Thanks to Felonia von Pantsuit and her unsecured private email server, you’re going to see new rules and laws coming that will deal with attempts to hide these sorts of things.
A thoughtful and knowledgeable individual like Myron Ebell appears to be perfectly suited to lead the transition to a new EPA. His position on climate change is simply one example of his suitability. The EPA does play a role in environmental protection. However, that role, like all federal government, should be limited in order to maximize freedom.
And there it is. The first round fired in the war of the people verses the Beltway Uniparty bureaucracy. It’s not going to be the last. Hopefully, we can start reducing the size, power and reach of these agencies and restore the rights of the people to their homes, businesses and property.
Thatisall
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