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Check out # 27 (secret cash fund,)
# 29 , (note the question in # 29, who could it possibly be?)
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Posted on 04/30/2016 8:12:41 AM PDT by rktman
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have accumulated at least $6.3 billion in more than 1,300 obscure spending accounts akin to slush funds that are essentially beyond congressional, media and public scrutiny.
The accounts – which were created through EPA’s Superfund program – are not technically secret because the agency officially acknowledges their existence. But getting concrete details about deposits and expenditures is extremely difficult.
The EPA deposited more than $6.3 billion into an estimated 1,308 special accounts between 1990 and 2015, according to the agency’s website, and has spent more than half of the total. The agency doesn’t publicly report individual special account balances or expenses.
The “special accounts” are financed by legal settlements between the agency and parties responsible for polluting Superfund sites. Funds are deposited and spent without prior congressional approval.
“This is the very definition of an out-of-control agency, if they can raise their own money and not have to go to Congress to have it appropriated,” Myron Ebell, director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment told TheDCNF.
An EPA spokeswoman told TheDCNF the agency manages the accounts “in accordance with the law, congressional intent, and EPA policy and guidance.”
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Check out # 27 (secret cash fund,)
# 29 , (note the question in # 29, who could it possibly be?)
and # 32 .
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Shrillary ‘lost’ the 6B.
Probably stashing it to buy up coal mining properties for pennies on the dollar...and old power plants.
You have to keep in mind who sets the thresholds for what is considered to be excessive levels of contamination.
Those targets change, generally getting more stringent (lower) due to research on the harmful effects of the contaminants. I’m not sure who funds the studies on which contaminants are harmful at what level, but it would be interesting if the EPA had a hand in funding the research that it used to rewrite the standards that it used to determine what was and was not a Superfund site...
It would be the closest thing to perpetual motion (or a “Mexican fur farm” operation) yet.
Yep.
I hate to be the one to point this out, but if a businessman had been stashing ‘petty cash’—and compared to the Gov’t budget this is petty cash, then they would not have made such a balls-up of hiding it like these politicians and bureaucrats have. It would have ‘trickled’ into an offshore account somewhere by now.
Maybe the EPA accepted a deposit from the State Department.
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