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The Chamber Of Commerce, Koch Bros., etc, etc, have spent ginormous amounts of money in attacking the relatively powerless Environmental Protection Agency, and it's no surprise, considering how they destroy the environment and don't want to be responsible for destroying the environment to make all those dolla's......$$$$$$$$
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The Wall Street Journal editorial page is effectively a lobbying arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, so it's no big shock to find it inveighing against EPA's upcoming toxics rule. Nor, this being the WSJ, is it much of a surprise to find the editorial packed with faulty reasoning and errors of fact. (Their evidence of high costs? "The power industry estimates that the true costs of the utility rule will far exceed the EPA estimates." Well then!) If you have the stomach for it, Media Matters plods through about a dozen of the mistakes, debunking as they go.
i dont advocate completely eliminating the EPA, however i DO advocate that we reign them in. as for the article you linked to, what they fail to show is that while individual regulations dont cost much, when you add up the total cost of ALL the regulations put out by the EPA, it gets quite expensive indeed. unnecessary regulation only costs business money to comply with and does NOTHING to improve the environment.
i dont advocate completely eliminating the EPA, however i DO advocate that we reign them in. as for the article you linked to, what they fail to show is that while individual regulations dont cost much, when you add up the total cost of ALL the regulations put out by the EPA, it gets quite expensive indeed. unnecessary regulation only costs business money to comply with and does NOTHING to improve the environment.
Of course we are all fine in living in this environment as long as the Koch brothers are happy.
Social conservative pitbulls are all worked up because their corporate overlords have told their army of spin doctors to tell them to be. It is that simple. No rational person is for degrading environmental quality. But the easily duped are doomed to repeat history.
To give the illusion that they actually are doing something.
I see we have an expert. I know a lot of people in EPA, and they are exceptionally competent and hardworking. PhD level experts on atmospheric chemistry, toxicology, water quality, hydrology, ecology,etc. How many do you know?
I see we have an expert. I know a lot of people in EPA, and they are exceptionally competent and hardworking. PhD level experts on atmospheric chemistry, toxicology, water quality, hydrology, ecology,etc. How many do you know?
Maybe I was not clear. I support having the EPA with the power to regulate and enforce. Please reread what I was responding to on the thread and actually see my thread on the same issue.
Not an expert. Just someone who has to breath the air and drink the water.
This is the problem with government. The left hand cannot agree with right hand.
For example. I know Obama and Bush, etc has promoted green energy. Solar and Wind are green energy. But in order to build these a solar plant in a dessert, the EPA must approved it. Good like getting them approve.
To give the illusion that they actually are doing something.
Consider the premise they operate upon, they are bound to need something "government run" so they can push the blame onto.
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