Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/03/2009 1:27:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Just how transparent is the work of unelected staff members of the Air Resources Board as they prepare to micromanage California's private economy with as-yet unwritten regulations to curb global warming?
Already, the state Air Resources Board is being challenged about how it has spent $57 million of tax money advanced by the Legislature to implement 2006's Global Warming Solutions Act, which ambitiously – and we feel unnecessarily – aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The ARB contends every dime is fully accounted for in a 141-page summary of 50,000 documents that show where the money has been spent to date. The agency insists the document on its Web site (www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2009/feereg09/feeisor.pdf) fully complies with California's Public Records Act.
Not so, says the California Chamber of Commerce, which unsuccessfully sought an audit of Air Resources Board spending for the current and previous fiscal years.
"ARB staff members expressed surprise when" asked to explain how the money had been spent, according to a chamber statement. What followed was the government agency's refusal to release records showing where the $57 million went, and a lawsuit by the business group. "The ARB finally released some documents, but has continued to withhold nearly 50,000 pages of records," says the chamber.
The chamber sought help in the Legislature. But last week a legislative committee rejected the business group's request for an audit of the ARB. Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, took the request to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee and says the Democrat-controlled committee blocked it.
Despite the government agency's insistence it has complied with the law, the chamber continues to maintain, "the records ARB has released to date fail to provide any substantiation for more than $24.5 million (43 percent) of the $57 million."
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
The agency insists the document on its Web site (http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/2009/feereg09/feeisor.pdf) fully complies with California’s Public Records Act.
CARB Nazi Ping.
Most of it probably went to Pelosi’s vineyard upkeep.
“Just how transparent is the work of unelected staff members of the Air Resources Board as they prepare to micromanage California’s private economy with as-yet unwritten regulations to curb global warming?
Already, the state Air Resources Board is being challenged about how it has spent $57 million of tax money advanced by the Legislature to implement 2006’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which ambitiously – and we feel unnecessarily – aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The ARB contends every dime is fully accounted for in a 141-page summary of 50,000 documents that show where the money has been spent to date. The agency insists the document on its Web site.”
The Green enviral economic terrorism industry in California has to be several Billion $’s each year. That is controlled by a small number of elite greenies.
One can only imagine the Pious and other hybrids they get to drive/er evaluate for free and other products.
The ARB has been financially raping Californians for about 2 decades with all of their special gasolines from the cancer causing MTBE to their Mythanol BS. Companies have probably paid big money to get their so called Green products approved to be sold in California.
It would be great to see IRS audit every voting ARB member for the past 10 years.
...The Demorats continue to be a blight on the Country. From marxists residing in the White House, to tax cheats heading committees in Congress ... these folks work in overdrive to destroy the Nation - on a Federal, State, and local level... Covering for the financial malfeasance of this unwarranted bureaucracy, CARB, is just one of the many gifts from the Dems.
What a plague on the land.
The CARB is nothing but an unregulated fiefdom of environmental lunatics now with the power to destroy the economy of CA.
Good work by the OC Register!
“Air Resources Board as they prepare to micromanage California’s private economy with as-yet unwritten regulations to curb global warming?”
Oh there written, As of Aug. 3, 2009
http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/newsroom/2009_releases/2009-08-03_Adaptation_Strategy_Discussion_Draft_News_Release.pdf
More Crap Here:
http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/
Thanks for the link, wasn’t aware of this site.
And Yes, Props to the OC Register for shining the light in CARB’s direction.
Here is another lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation
http://community.pacificlegal.org/Page.aspx?pid=934
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