EPA Funds Leftist Groups That Sue EPA and Force Punishing Restrictions on American Industry

It’s a circle of destruction – And you paid for it.
The radical EPA is funding far left groups who then sue the EPA and force debilitating restrictions on American industry.

New EPA rules will force Western coal-fired power plants to install haze-reducing pollution-control equipment at a cost of $1.5 billion a year. Pictured is the Dave Johnston Power Plant in Glenrock, Wyoming. (IBD)

This ought to make you sick.
IBD Editorials reported:

When the Environmental Protection Agency said in late June that it would force Western coal-fired power plants to install haze-reducing pollution-control equipment at a cost of $1.5 billion a year, it said it had to in order to settle a lawsuit by environmental groups.

One organization involved in the suit, the Environmental Defense Fund, has a long history of taking the EPA to court. In fact, a cursory review finds almost half a dozen cases in the past 10 years.

The odd thing is that the EPA, in turn, has handed EDF $2.76 million in grants over that same period, according to an IBD review of the agency’s grant database.

This strange relationship goes well beyond EDF. Indeed, several environmental groups that have received millions in EPA grants regularly file suit against that same agency. A dozen green groups were responsible for more than 3,000 suits against the EPA and other government agencies over the past decade, according to a study by the Wyoming-based Budd-Falen Law Offices.

#1 July 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I_B_Prophen commented:

The EPA’s agenda is determined by those who receive EPA money to sue the EPA in order to modify its agenda in a direction that the EPA (and Administration) favors.

Now that’s progress. Welcome to life under a Socialist regime.
Big Brother has its way, on your dime.

Had enough?
#2 July 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Finncrisp commented:

My job and 80 others vanished in MO when these guys took the measure of our coal fired power plant. They are just getting warmed up (pun intended) unless we stop them in 2012. God help us if we don’t.
#3 July 7, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Q: how much more evidence do we need?

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

Where is the line? Is there one?

Or do we just go silently into the next Great Leap Forward?
#4 July 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

Long ago, I said, “So screw ‘Godwin’s Law’, since Mao killed more than Hitler and Stalin combined. All for the same communism that most of today’s Progressives are pushing.”

They aim to beat Mao’s record.
#5 July 7, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Michael commented:

This keeps the EPA bureaucrats busy – deciding how to dole out grant money and defending itself from lawsuits. This is the nature of the federal government. The stupidity is just a means to make it appear that centralized control is a necessity. If you haven’t noticed, the game is now on for real; put your hand out to get your piece of the action while the fed is still in business creating dollars out of nothing.
#6 July 7, 2011 at 6:27 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

welcome to odumbass’s world ….he hates capitalism and is destroying AMERICA…impeach the mooslum fraud
#7 July 7, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Paddy commented:

These suits have been a standard practice when dealing with the DOI, USDA, Corps of Engineers, NOAA, and NASA and numerous agencies within these departments. The NRDC, EDF, Sierra Club via their so-called public interest law firms, and numerous so-called citizens groups have been short circuiting Congress and th executive branch for decades with sweetheart litigation and settlements that become agency policy that implements their radical environmental agendas.

Worse, when they are the prevailing party or win via settlements, they recover reasonable attorneys and litigation expenses. These outcomes are made possible by the citizen suits provisions of the laws, regulations and agency actions that are successfully challenged. The citizen suits provisions operate as bounty hunter payments.

This is all made possible by effective lobbying by environmental organizations that started in the late 1960s. It is the worst sort of political corruption that flows from conflicts of interests and sell outs by crooked politicians. Government employee unions benefit from the same type of unlawful and immoral relationships with elected officials.
#8 July 7, 2011 at 7:09 pm
bob lowers commented:

just google U.N. agenda 21 then CRY?
#9 July 7, 2011 at 7:13 pm
WJoy O commented:

This sounds like a good project for Judicial Watch — it’s definitely as important as Acorn’s fixing elections!
#10 July 7, 2011 at 7:28 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

#8

No crying here.

I know who wins.

Consider the KJV. It’s an eye-opener, to be sure.
#11 July 7, 2011 at 7:38 pm
wanumba commented:

SO why are the budget talks being labelled as “cutting social security” when they should be “100% defunding EPA, Dept of Education and HUD?”

Everyone ELSE is being thrown out of work, so they don’t need two weeks notice, they’ll take too much stuff. Just change the passcodes so when tomorrow’s rosy-fingered dawn arrives, no one can get into the building. Then put it up for sale.

THEN, the NEXT government behemouth… and the next.
#12 July 7, 2011 at 7:54 pm
arnonerik commented:

Wanumba has it right. This (closing them down) has to be a top priority for our new President whoever she is.
#13 July 7, 2011 at 8:24 pm
bigkahuna commented:

We need to fight these jerkoffs…..

1. Defund EPA 50-75% reduce grants to those who wont harm us.

2. Sue these groups and make them defend themselves and bankrupt them
#14 July 7, 2011 at 9:03 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

what if the majority of the american people don’t want these regulations? does the EPA exist to do what the american people want or to make the american people do what they want?
#15 July 7, 2011 at 9:12 pm
saveus commented:

complete corruption
shut down the EPA
#16 July 7, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Valerie commented:

The allegations about sweetheart litigation, if true, are serious. The only way that something like this can happen is when the word never gets out to the rest of us.

Although Congress has oversight authority, they tend to focus on the crisis du jour, and may not notice.

Also, in a Federal lawsuit, one fundamental requirement is for the parties-in-suit to identify all the real parties in interest — that is, any entity that has a financial interest in one of the parties, or would be affected by the outcome. It’s one of those procedural things designed to bring conflicts of interest out in the open.
#17 July 7, 2011 at 9:41 pm
gad-fly commented:

For an evening of unbelievable reading on the con game that is the environmental movement’s abuse of our laws and their obvious conspiracy with the EPA, check out the Budd-Falen Law Office and the Western Legacy Alliance sites.

Also, let your congressperson know that you want to see the passage of the GOVERNMENTAL LITIGATION SAVINGS ACT OF 2011 which will shut down the environmental litigation gravy train.
#18 July 7, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

#11 wanumba

THEN, the NEXT government behemouth… and the next.

see my #10

There won’t be very many more of those. As many a sandwich-boarded, long-bearded crazy has been known to intone:

“Repent, for the end is nigh.”

(Hint: the Bible is true, and it’s very specific prophecies are goin’ down, as we type — specifically those related to Eschatological matters.)
#19 July 7, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Taqiyyotomist commented:

And, as Babbazee has been known to intone:

“Repent, for the end is EXTREMELY F*#KING nigh!”

Moreso than most even dare to imagine.
#21 July 7, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Bridget commented:

If this isn’t the perfect illustration of the absolute arrogance of Leftists in power, I don’t know what is.. Corruption, power, money – yeah, they care about the little people – why else would they be shoving mercury laden light bulbs down our throats. Sad thing, we’re barely surprised anymore by this crap. BTW why is Medicare/Social Security the first thing on the chopping block when you’ve boatloads of useless agencies sucking up tax dollars? Obama be playin’ politics.
#22 July 7, 2011 at 11:52 pm
jorgen commented:

Why haven’t the EPA been defunded? Are they doing anything useful?
#23 July 8, 2011 at 5:50 am
BackwardsBoy commented:

Just as our current economic crisis has its roots in the Community Reinvestment Act, this job-killing racket is the result of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. In addition to closing down the EPA, both of these laws should be repealed immediately and the responsibility handed over to the states who have their own environmental agencies.

I’m a strict Constitutionalist when it comes to the EPA. Their policies are responsible for the transformation of California’s Central Valley from lush farmland to a dustbowl, among many other actions that place the welfare of animals ahead of the people. How is that acting for the public good?
#25 July 8, 2011 at 8:28 am
tj commented:

I’m sure that the EPA now needs more funding in order to fight these lawsuits!

lawyers + liberal federal workers + taxpayer money = toxic waste