Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/29/2010 5:16:21 PM PDT by goldendays
s Green Socialism EPA's Real Goal?
Posted 10/27/2010 07:22 PM ET
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has made "environmental justice" a priority. AP View Enlarged Image
Government: While it destroys jobs with its regulations, the EPA has an opening for an "environmental protection specialist" whose job it is to help the agency meet its "environmental justice goals." Meet its what?
If socialism and environmentalism had a child, it would be called the Environmental Protection Agency. Established under President Nixon to ensure the quality of our air and water, it has become a tool of social engineering to implement President Obama's promised fundamental transformation of America
The EPA is looking for someone with "knowledge of the theories and principles of environmental protection, especially as they relate to issues of environmental justice and the impacts of environmental laws, policies, legislation and regulation on minority and/or low-income groups and communities."
The job, located in New York City, pays up to $84,000. No college degree is required — just a hatred of industry, development and fossil fuels, and a belief that minorities are the deliberate victims of capitalist exploitation.
Come to think of it, that description fits the Obama administration's departed "green jobs" czar, Van Jones. He believed that white America deliberately poured its pollution into minority communities and sought redistribution of wealth in the name of environmental justice.
In January 2008, Jones spoke of an "environmental justice community that said, 'Hey, wait a minute, you know, you're regulating, but you're not regulating equally.' And the white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don't have a racial justice frame."
His most famous rant occurred at the Powershift Conference in March 2009. There, he spoke of "our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn't want, where it was all hot and windy."
But now, he added, they "own and control 80% of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth! Give them the wealth!"
Van Jones may be off the roster of the administration that picked him, but his views remain and permeate the EPA and its policies.
To "give them the wealth" requires that it be taken first from those who created it. That presumably would be a main task for the new environmental justice coordinator.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has made environmental justice an EPA priority, and in July the agency released a 56-page "guidance" to help its employees "advance environmental justice" to low-income and minority communities.Is Green Socialism EPA's Real Goal?
Posted 10/27/2010 07:22 PM ET "Achieving environmental justice is an agency priority and should be factored into every decision," the document noted.
This document is a fulfillment of an executive order issued 16 years ago by President Bill Clinton directing every federal agency "to make achieving environmental justice part of its mission."
President Obama campaigned on a promise to make "environmental justice policies a priority within the EPA." That's why he picked Jones, a self-proclaimed Marxist, to be his "green jobs" czar.
The net effect of EPA and its activities has been to discourage job growth nationwide and in low-income and minority communities in particular. EPA is an active agent in the redistribution of wealth that will eventually make all of us equally poor.
The EPA recently listed 76 community groups and governmental agencies that will share almost $2 million in the form of "environmental justice grants." The Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice will use its money to train eight housing authority residents to train others how to recycle.
The West Harlem Environmental Action group will use its grant to "identify and address the problems caused by climate change in Northern Manhattan."
Perhaps they'll post lookouts to watch for advancing glaciers.
The EPA's job is to regulate air and water quality, not to chase phantom pollutants such as carbon dioxide or to make pollution a racial issue.
Industry also brings jobs to low-income and minority communities, and if the EPA is as concerned about the environment and "environmental justice" as it says, it would be pushing for the construction of safe and clean and job-providing nuclear power plants in these very communities.
Communism is the EPA’s ONLY goal.
EPA is a watermelon organization: green on the outside and red on the inside.
ed Tape Rising
Next January the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to issue new regulations on emissions from boilers used in facilities like oil refineries, paper mills and shopping malls. The EPA claims their new regulations will only cost the economy $9.5 billion by 2013. But the American Chemistry Council says the cost will surpass $20 billion and kill 800,000 jobs. Who is right? We don’t know. But what we do know is that if you total up all of the new regulations already passed by the Obama administration last year, using their own cost estimates, fiscal 2010 saw the largest increase in regulatory burdens placed on the U.S. economy in the nation’s recorded regulatory history, says Conn Carroll, assistant director for the Heritage Foundation’s Strategic Communications.
According to a report released last month by the Small Business Administration, existing total regulatory costs already amount to about $1.75 trillion annually — nearly twice as large as the sum of all individual income taxes collected last year.
Adding to this burden, federal agencies promulgated 43 new rules during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010.
The total cost of these rules, each one individually calculated by the Obama administration itself, was $28 billion.
On net, the Obama administration inflicted $26.5 billion in new regulatory costs on the economy last year.
As high as this $26.5 billion total is, the actual cost of all these new regulations is almost certainly much higher, says Carroll.
First, the cost of noneconomically significant rules — rules deemed not likely to have an annual impact of $100 million or more — is not calculated.
Second, no costs were given for 12 of the rules that were deemed economically significant.
Most importantly, the costs that were given are likely minimized because the regulators are allowed to make up the cost of their own regulations. Indeed, a 2005 Office of Management and Budget Report to Congress found that regulators underestimated the costs of their rules 34 percent of the time.
Source: Conn Carroll, “Red Tape Rising,” Heritage Foundation, October 27th, 2010.
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he GOP and Global Warming/EPA Greenhouse Gas Restrictions in 2011
Almost two-dozen industry and business groups are pushing Senators to limit funding for unprecedented Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. The list of groups includes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Manufacturers Association, and the American Chemistry Council, and they are urging top Republicans and possible swing-vote Democratic members of the Appropriations Committee to halt EPA actions in a spending package that will come forward during the lame duck session. They want to see the EPA blocked from placing greenhouse gas restrictions on power plants and other energy sources. The restrictions are set to go into effect on January 2, and the groups have told Senators that they would lead to increased, burdening costs on U.S. jobs and state resources, while also overshadowing Congress’s place in the development of energy policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Almost every state is prepared to issue permits around the time the EPA’s restrictions go into effect. Most states, though not Texas, will allow the EPA to oversee the permitting process for them until they are able to do it themselves. Over the summer Texas followed suit with others in challenging the EPA’s “tailoring” rule in court.
Scientists from NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, and other noteworthy science organizations say that findings from all parts of the globe demonstrate that climate change is the result of activities by man. Conservative Republican Senate candidates around the country disagree, and if these candidates are victorious on November 2, it will make it even more difficult to see legislation in the Senate that addresses greenhouse gas emissions next year, especially since legislation on the issue has already been held up in the chamber.
Second thing: All "Environmental Justice" programs
The EPA wants to halt private business under the guise of saving the planet when the true goal is to make every business enterprise a Government entity, full of bureaucrats to dispense wealth and power as they see fit.
Ms. Jackson is a f’ing moron.
EPA is a watermelon organization: green on the outside and red on the inside.
It was established under Nixon to do exactly what it is doing.
The only solution is repeal of the Environmental Protection Act (1971).
Everything that is happening is required, or permitted, by law.
First things first - the leadership of the fascist EPA must be hanged for treason.
Two - the EPA is an illegal fascist organization that must be destroyed.
Three - every federal judge that voted in favor of any EPA ruling must be impeached and hanged.
Four - the skeleton of the RINO traitor Nixon must be dug out and hanged from every lampost from sea to shining sea.
Five - every GD environmentalist, including the drolling troll jerks here on FR, must be rounded up and shipped - one way - to North Korea.
Six - leave or suffer the consequences.
Remember, it all began when they talked us into having public sewers!!
A lifelong communist did not have an epiphany, gorbachev simply ‘softened’ his image, but not his goal.
The EPA was created by law, exists according to the law, and can be eliminated by repeal of the law.
It is certainly unconstitutional, since it is not provided for in Article I, and it is not an Article III inferior court.
But it is not illegal.
In times past, whole communities grew up around fume belching steel plants, smelters, mines and mills of every kind. EJ is a good way to keep these people locked in an economically barren ghetto.
Uh, yes. Next question?
The EPA needs to be reduced to whatever staff can fit into an empty 7-11 store.
Socialism is the goal. Green is only the particular tool assigned to this operating unit.
Clinton loved him some environmental justice...
1994 Feb 11 EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 12898
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/execordr.html
And the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was supportive in 2003...
http://www.usccr.gov/press/prsndx.htm
Yes, the lovely Mary Frances Berry who also said: “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.”
Compost the b*stards!
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