EPA to preside over fish cases

NEWS-TIMES ^ | September 11, 2011 | mike shutak

[george76]

Commercial fishermen will no longer have their regulatory cases heard by Coast Guard Administrative Law Judges.

Instead, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that as of Thursday, Environmental Protection Agency ALJ’s will preside over all new fishing law enforcement cases.

This measure is being taken in response to an inquiry made by the Inspector General into complaints by commercial fishermen that NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service’s regulatory system was being excessive with its penalties and actions.

Jerry Slaff, NOAA public affairs officer, said the EPA will provide judges for regulatory cases for the next two years. He said NOAA is still looking for a permanent solution to its law enforcement issue.

[sheik yerbouty]

Everthing, and by design!

[SunkenCiv]

Don’t they have to go to school for that? Thanks bitt.

[bitt]

Naaah, they must have stuck some Haavard profs in there and they probably think they know everything about everything, like ‘You Know Who’ does....

[Marine_Uncle]

‘unelected crazy despots controlling our futures’
Lisa Jackson must be thrilled to death over this one.

[bamahead]

Could someone point me to the Article/Section # of the constitution where it states the EPA is part of the judicial branch?

[Jacquerie]

Write the “Law.” Check
Enforce it. Check
Adjudicate it. Check

Classic Tyranny. Check

[Marine_Uncle]

"Classic Tyranny. Check."
Bingo! Give the Freeper a cigar.

[BlueDragon]

...thinking “sleep” “fishes”

[Seadog Bytes]

Perhaps this action is merely a governmental attempt to make EPA look more 'important' by giving it more responsibility, so as to provide EPA some excuse for not being completely shut down, when the super-committe comes looking for budget cuts. (...Certainly they might well have reason to be concerned that their current dual 'mission' - that of scr*wing up America's energy supply, while simultaneously scr*wing over American businesses and private land owners - might be judged 'inadequate', by 'some', in that regard.)