Posted on 09/10/2015 5:49:20 AM PDT by bestintxas
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Wednesday that it did not plan for the "worst-case scenario" at a Colorado mine clean-up operation -- where that scenario unfolded last month when a toxic mine spill sent millions of gallons of sludge into Western rivers.
Mathy Stanislaus, an EPA assistant administrator, testified at the first congressional hearing on the mine disaster. He defended the agency's transparency but said a team has concluded the agency's response plan did not account for a blowout.
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"The investigation team also concluded that the emergency response component of the plan did not include the worst-case scenario of a blowout and that's something I committed to, going forward, to make sure that happens," Stanislaus told lawmakers on the House science committee.
Stanislaus' answers did not appear to satisfy lawmakers who accused the EPA of ducking responsibility for the spill that fouled rivers in three Western states.
"The EPA neither took responsibility nor were they forthright with the American people," House science committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said, urging the EPA to "come clean" on its involvement.
Smith said the EPA took more than 24 hours to inform the public about the seriousness of the spill. He added he was disappointed that EPA chief Gina McCarthy declined to attend the hearing Wednesday, saying: "Perhaps she doesn't have good answers."
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It is high time for the committee chairman to send officers to her office and haul her butt before them.
Being the FedGuv means never having to say you’re sorry—Or anything else, for that matter.
Anyone expecting the ball-less GOP poltroons in the Congress to address will be waiting a long time.
So who opened the plug on that spill, and why couldn’t they close it?
Drag out 10 more hearings over the next two years and the media disappears the spill, all will be forgotten.
WOOSH!!!
WTF, do we do now??
The EPA INTENTIONALLY CREATED THIS DISASTER!
The editorial published ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE DISASTER, rather precisely describes the steps the EPA took to create the problem and why.
It was a land grab and an excuse to stop any development in the area.
and hide their agenda, evade our questions, answer to nobody, live comfortably off our hard work, regulate our lives, subject us to their whims, view us with scorn, etc., etc.
Notes…
EPA employs over 17,000 people across the country, including headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., 10 regional offices, and more than a dozen labs. Staff are highly educated and technically trained; more than half are engineers, scientists, and policy analysts. - publicaccess
U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith has long blamed regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency for the decline of the coal industry across the nation and in his Southwest Virginia district.
Griffith, R-9th, introduced a bill to cut 15 percent of the EPA’s budget, saying the agency has grown "out of control."
"From 1972 until 2011, the number of EPA employees increased by 107 percent… - politifact
I called sabotage as soon as I read the first article. I’ll bet they hired another 100 enviro-Nazis.
Egregious Progressive Agenda
Do you have a link to the editorial?
It was posted all over FR in the 2 weeks after the spill.
Try Google.
Editorial Predicting the spill.
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