EPA's Gina McCarthy wants to be potentate of private property in America

By Editorial Writer Oct. 20, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy is stealthily seeking the most massive expansion of her agency’s regulatory power in its history. If she succeeds, most of the privately owned land in the country will be subject to the whims of petty bureaucrats, many of whom are motivated by the same brand of environmental fanaticism that has previously made EPA President Obama’s "war on coal" tool of choice for wrecking America’s electrical-power generation industry.

McCarthy might have succeeded in her land-control quest without public notice, but for House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas and the chairman of one of that panel's subcommittees, Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah. in an Oct. 18, 2013, letter first reported by Washington Examiner columnist Ron Arnold, Smith and Stewart said “we are concerned that [EPA] is pushing through a rule with vast economic and regulatory implications before the agency's Science Advisory Board has had an opportunity to review the underlying the science.”....To Read More....