May 4, 2016
The United States Environmental Protection Agency maintains a cozy relationship with environmental groups – it has been caught releasing proposals for early commentary to them and even republished Sierra Club talking points about Keystone XL as being officially from the Obama administration.
Well, why is that a surprise? The EPA is stuffed with former environmental activists. Being at Union of Concerned Scientists is practically a shoe-in for a government job during the last seven years. Yet those clearly conflicted EPA officials have never recused themselves from decisions, even when being lobbied by their friends with activist organizations.
How close are these friends? EPA’s former policy administrator Michael Goo invited League of Conservation Voters and Natural Resources Defense Council members to parties where they could buy T-shirts from him for $20. And buying T-shirts seems to have helped them. The New York Times criticized EPA for letting NRDC draft a blueprint for its ruling on coal power plants. Who suggested in a Dec. 9, 2011 email to Dave Hawkins, environmental lawyer at NRDC, that his group produce the material for EPA efforts to shut down coal-fired plants? That same Michael Goo......
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