Scott Pruitt EPA replacement Andrew Wheeler won't be any better for environment, green groups say

NBCNews ^ | July 5, 2018 | James Rainey and Leigh Ann Caldwell

[Still Thinking]

If you look back into the history of these groups and their ties to Marxist fronts and causes, I’d say that they should change their name from “Greens” to “Reds”.

That's why we call them watermelons -- green on the outside, RED on the inside!

[Rebelbase]

The only way the Greens would be satisfied with an Interior Secretary would be if John Muir was reanimated into a zombie.

[GBA]

What did people do before the Nixon and the EPA? Pretty much as they pleased, which is why the EPA came into being.

How many times does a river have to catch fire before you notice the problem, and then how long to decide to do something about it?

We are the EPA’s reason to be, but, like with so many things in our swamp these days, it has grown way too big for its britches and needs to be brought to heel.

Same for the NTSB or whoever it was who screwed up the headrests in cars and trucks since 2009.

Checks and balances. We needed the EPA to check and balance our nature and now we need to check and balance the EPA for the same reason.

[UnwashedPeasant]

The states can handle anything useful the EPA is doing, or else we need a Constitutional amendment to authorize the EPA.

[GBA]

The problem states have is sharing and sometimes kids don’t play well together.

States don’t have control of the air that comes and goes, nor do they have control of the water that flows in and out and beyond their borders.

We’re family. We all share the same stuff, but we’re increasing in number and in our demands for and rights to these shared resources.

You fill our packed elevator with your buttgas and your personal dietary choices have now become our shared problem.

So, I don’t have a problem with a federal overseer of fair standards arbitrating where and where needed, because sooner or later it always is needed.

But, I do have a problem when something’s out of control, especially when that something has great power, but few checks and balances.

Like the EPA, for one swampy example.

[bert]

-—We’re family. -—

No longer.

It has become existential. We must slay the lions in the arena or be eaten

[GBA]

I agree. No argument about the lions in the arena part.

Lucky for US, we just happen to have a lion slayer/lion tamer currently on duty.