Go ahead and laugh at the EPA now.

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by NoJiveMan

I disagree. With new science findings and technology, some regulations either need updating or new regulations should come about.

Whether you agree or not is irrelevant, that's not the way it works. Any regulatory agency has to base their regulations on the laws passed by our elected officials in Congress. Those rules and regulations that go over the line are challenged in court all the time.

For example the EPA successfully defended regs over CO2 they implemented under the current Clean Air Act and that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The key word here is current because it can be amended to clarify it, the Democrats Climate bill would have stripped them of this power. It was about the only thing good in that bill.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by MTAtech

But the idea that "" is just bogus. The EPA has been consistently trying to raise MPG standards, and faces industry resistance. Those standards would reduce consumption of gasoline and ethanol.

CAFE was raised by a fairly healthy margin.

Moreover, it's the corn lobby that pushed for ethanol to be added to gasoline, not the EPA.

You can argue that it was the corn lobby behind it but it is the EPA pushing it.

[mateo45]

Originally Posted by Glitch

The biggest polluters in the State of Alaska are not the oil companies, as the anti-business types would like to think. It is the federal government, particularly the Department of Defense. So the next time you think Alaska gets a disproportional amount of federal funds compared to other States, just remember that the taxpayer money is being spent cleaning up the mess left by the feds.

It's true that Defense and the Feds share a lot of responsibility, but even of the 20 current Superfund sites in Alaska, well over half of those are clearly due to petroleum and private-enterprise. And simply saying, ''Guvmint does it too'', doesn't change that.

EPA Alaska Cleanup Sites