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EPA Puts ‘Environmental Justice’ Front and Center in Its Rulemaking Process
CNSNews.com ^ | July 28, 2010 | Susan Jones

Posted on 07/29/2010 3:12:02 AM PDT by Man50D

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a 55-page “guidance” to help its employees “advance environmental justice” for low-income and minority communities.

“Achieving environmental justice is an Agency priority and should be factored into every decision,” the document says.

The move comes 16 years after President William Clinton signed an executive order directing every federal agency to "make achieving environmental justice part of its mission." And Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to make "environmental justice policies a priority within the EPA."

'Fair treatment and meaningful involvement'

The EPA says its new guidelines will help its rule-writers identify potential environmental justice concerns, and it instructs them to analyze the impact of their rules on low-income and minority populations.

The EPA defines environmental justice as the “fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, particularly minority, low-income, and indigenous populations, and tribes, in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

The guide states that from now on -- in the process of developing rules, policy statements, risk assessments, and other regulatory actions -- EPA managers and staffers must first ask themselves, “Does this action involve a topic that is likely to be of particular interest to or have particular impact upon minority, low-income, or indigenous populations, or tribes?”

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The mere existence of the EPA is unconstitutional! Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate the environment! Therefore the EPA needs to be abolished! The people are not bound to comply with an unconstitutional act!
1 posted on 07/29/2010 3:12:04 AM PDT by Man50D
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To: Man50D

On the theory that it is not a complete Clusterfark until it is a Racial Clusterfark.


2 posted on 07/29/2010 3:24:36 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (There are 10 kinds of people: Those who get binary math, and those who don't.)
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To: Man50D

Hay, Elected Law Makers, are you feeling the power slipping from your grip. Why not just hand the keys to the Constitution to the unelected regulators?
Would it be too much to ask you yo READ the BILL so you know what’s in the Bill before you vote.


3 posted on 07/29/2010 3:32:24 AM PDT by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: Man50D

Environmental justice advocates have been successful many times in protecting blacks and poor from employment and prosperity.


4 posted on 07/29/2010 3:40:51 AM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: jimfree
I cannot imagine a phrase further to the left than “environmental justice”. It seems to encapsulate every Leftist desire: Gaia-ism, trash the Constitution, control of minority aspirations, eugenics, communistic control of the economy, indoctrination of the young, siphoning of tax dollars to corrupt politicians, distracting Americans from murderous Islamists, drug cartel control of our border,.....
5 posted on 07/29/2010 3:55:28 AM PDT by Pecos
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To: Man50D

The move comes 16 years after President William Clinton signed an executive order directing every federal agency to “make achieving environmental justice part of its mission.” And Barack Obama campaigned on a promise to make “environmental justice policies a priority within the EPA.”

Environmental justice by executive Order? Not voted on by elected law makers?
Define environmental justice

“Historically, the low-income and minority communities that carry the greatest environmental burdens haven’t had a voice in our policy development or rulemaking,” said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in announcing the release of the guide.

I didn’t know that EPA was elected to make rules. The EPA must think they are a branch of government.


6 posted on 07/29/2010 4:40:24 AM PDT by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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To: Man50D

It’s not only unconstitutional, the EPA is modeled after Hitler’s Reichsnaturschutzgesetz of 1935. This nature protection law established guidelines for safeguarding flora, fauna and national monuments across the Reich. It also restricted commercial access to Germany’s resources. It required all national, state and local officials to consult with Naturschutz authorities before undertaking any measures that would produce alterations in the countryside.

Ein volk! Ein reich! Seig heil!!


7 posted on 07/29/2010 5:09:10 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Man50D

The left is doing to the word “justice” what they have already done to the words “liberal” and “progress” - making them synonymous with fascist socialism.


8 posted on 07/29/2010 5:17:24 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Napolean fries the idea powder.)
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To: jimfree

“Environmental justice advocates have been successful many times in protecting blacks and poor from employment and prosperity.”

And doing a great job of it, too.

They use less energy, and produce less waste, because they are poor. See? It’s working!


9 posted on 07/29/2010 5:18:33 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Man50D

I used to be a contractor for the EPA. I will never forget on one site in south GA, when the NAACP and Sierra Club managers marched up to the trailer demanding to see the work site and seeking “environmental justice.” The NAACP guy was the one who was killed in a car wreck later; can’t remember his name.

Anyway, the fed agent was out so I told them they could wait in the trailer and nothing more. They ranted about poor black people etc. I pointed to the historical aerials of the site showing no homes ie the poor black people moved to the site and built homes to work there.

They left.


10 posted on 07/29/2010 5:23:45 AM PDT by doodad
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To: Free Vulcan

bump


11 posted on 07/29/2010 5:43:42 AM PDT by Iowa Granny (Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
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To: Man50D

EVERYTHING with these people is about the “oppressor” class against the “oppressed” class and how to grab money from the hard-working normal people and give it to those who vote democrat.


12 posted on 07/29/2010 6:00:26 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: doodad

Not familiar with how these current clowns will define environmental justice rules, but under Clinton, the agency would attack a factory because it was polluting near poor families, factory would close and pay for cleanup, democratic contributing developer would pick up the land for development at rock bottom price, and the poor workers would lose their jobs. Win-win for everyone.


13 posted on 07/29/2010 6:11:51 AM PDT by battlecry
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To: Man50D

“justice” is now White guilt. These marxists are now using White guilt to justify any and all marxist actions.


14 posted on 07/29/2010 6:14:52 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism: severe deterioration of the thinking apparattus)
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To: Man50D

Just in case there was anyone still in doubt, when the government says “so-and-so justice” in any context, it’s simply Marxist shorthand employed to refer to all of the countless special rights and privileges allocated to Democrats and their followers.


15 posted on 07/29/2010 6:50:49 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Iowa Granny

Thanks. Will forward.


16 posted on 07/29/2010 7:29:38 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners, no mercy. 2010 is here...)
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