The scientific enterprise at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is broken, contrary to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s assertions that “science is the backbone of everything we do at EPA,” or that major regulations are based on the recommendations of EPA’s “independent” science advisors. As Americans face a fragile economy and skyrocketing energy prices fueled by President Obama’s agenda, it is important to pull back the curtain on the ideologically-driven processes EPA is using to justify an avalanche of costly rules..... A recent participant in another EPA review panel testified before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee earlier this Congress calling EPA’s advisory process “flawed, narrow, and possibly ethically questionable.” There is clearly a problem. The need for EPA science reform, however, goes well beyond just flawed advisory processes. Example after example of the Agency putting the regulatory cart before the scientific horse has tarnished its credibility. Continue reading
My Take – The need to rein in the EPA is so obvious the most casual observer can recognize it….however…..reining in the EPA is impossible without reining in the courts. If a careful analysis of the EPA’s regulatory authority were made I believe it would be found that most of it came from court decisions giving them authority the Congress never intended for them to have. Worse yet….it has been shown that the EPA has been consciously complicit in the lawsuits that gave them this authority with the green movement.
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