EPA Wants More Power In The Name Of ‘Sustainable Development’
Posted by Gateway Guest Blogger on Monday, December 19, 2011, 7:13 PM
Posted By The P/Oed Patriot
It appears the EPA isn’t happy with just the power to regulate carbon in the name of fictional Global Warming but are now interested in creating new powers (Sort of), in the name of Sustainable Development.
According to Fox News, the EPA is beginning to get a tad power hungry by wanting to ‘interpret’ new powers in old rules:
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of “sustainable development,” the centerpiece of a global United Nations conference slated for Rio de Janeiro next June.
The major focus of the EPA thinking is a weighty study the agency commissioned last year from the National Academies of Science. Published in August, the study, entitled “Sustainability and the U.S. EPA,” cost nearly $700,000 and involved a team of a dozen outside experts and about half as many National Academies staff.
Its aim: how to integrate sustainability “as one of the key drivers within the regulatory responsibilities of EPA.” The panel who wrote the study declares part of its job to be “providing guidance to EPA on how it might implement its existing statutory authority to contribute more fully to a more sustainable-development trajectory for the United States.”
Or, in other words, how to use existing laws to new ends.”
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Jim commented:
The EPA, Energy and Education departments need to go – now.
Texas_Treeroach commented:
Sustainable Development = Undisputable Autocracy
gee! commented:
totally agree there………..republicans need to stop the money…………….30 coal power plants out of business because of the racials at EPA………..no coal,no gas ,no oil………..under this adminastation and their New World Order over-lords………….just sayin
Molon Labe commented:
End this wasteful agency now.
Rhoda R commented:
Write your Congress critters. May not help, but it won’t hurt.
Max commented:
We have at least 50 departments of environmental quality. What the heck do we need a federal one for. Strip their power and give it to the states where it belongs.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Nixon sucked then and still sucks now!!
bear commented:
Danger!
Ella commented:
Eleven months until we throw all of these clowns out. Contact your congress critter and your senators. This EPA power trip has got to STOP.
USAF 77-84 commented:
EPA=Effin Nazi’s
JoyO commented:
We must stop the EPA — they are controlled by the environmentalists who want to control the entire world. Sustainable Development = Agenda 21 = eternal serfdom for America’s middle class. If we don’t stop the EPA, WE WILL END UP LIKE THE PEASANTS IN NORTH KOREA!
Robert commented:
And thus does bureaucracy run amok.
Christopher Taylor commented:
And methane filters on the other end of the reindeer…
gus commented:
This is how COMMIES grow their power.
Robert commented:
From the article:
The U.N. summit meeting, however, is mentioned in the Green Book [the study] itself as an instance where “sustainability is gaining increasing recognition as a useful framework for addressing otherwise intractable problems. The framework can be applied at any scale of governance, in nearly any situation, and anywhere in the world.”
And, the definition of “sustainability” is taken from an Obama Administration executive order of October, 2009, entitled Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance.
the ability “to create and maintain conditions, under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations.”
So, where are the limits on the EPA mission?
L.E. Liesner commented:
The stupidity of big government will never cease to amaze me. Their quest to turn this nation into a third world banana republic is beyond all comprehension. Stupidity compounded by idiocy!
JPeden commented:
“Sustainability and the U.S. EPA,” cost nearly $700,000 and involved a team of a dozen outside experts and about half as many National Academies staff.
“about half”? Can’t they count?
Anyway, $700,000/18 = approx. $40,000/”expert” or “staff” member, the obvious conclusion being that we must get rid of them before they suck us dry.
Anybody want to bet that they nevertheless appeal to “ecological overshoot” to instead try to get rid of or further enslave us?
gus commented:
Liesner, it’s LIBTARDS who are either STUPID, IDEOLOGICAL, COMMIE or POWER CRAZED.
It’s a combination of all of the above. We have GREEN freaks, who are as nutty as a squirrels den, we have Commies like Obama, who crave power control and redistribution, and we have idiots, who BELIEVE THEM.
Robert commented:
‘Create and maintain conditions that permit fulfilling the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations, and apply this standard at any scale of governance, in nearly any situation, and anywhere in the world.’
Global totalitarianism defined.
randtruth commented:
I’m sick and tired of the liberals attacking the rights of the billionaires to tell us that they’re sending our jobs overseas! Vote Republicans!
Freddy commented:
End the EPA.
There is no compromise position.
gus commented:
Randtard is a troll. Typical idiot, typical public school product. Follower. Sheep.
Perfected democrat commented:
gus commented:
“This is how COMMIES grow their power.”
Exactly, the only “sustainability” in it is for growing more power….
gus commented:
PERFECTED. It’s all calculated. LIB/COMMIES, always push the envelope and PROJECT their sick and dishonest tactics on their political opponents. Obama isn’t afraid of any consequences, of his admins actions. He has gone where no PATHETIC LOSER COMMIE has gone before in American governance. He has hired syccophantic/socialist/communist/libtard losers to do his bidding. And neither the GOP nor the MEDIA has the balls to call him what he is.
randtruth commented:
It’s time to wake up and start smelling the METHANE being released by the melting ICE CAPS and acknowledge that both the LIBS and the REPUGS are crooked, and that GUS is no where near having a CLUE! The DENIAL of REALITY is no protection from your MELTING SKIN.
mg4us commented:
At one time the EPA was chartered to Protect the Environment. . .but it morphed and grew into a monster.
Now who is going to protect us. .the citizens and laborers from bureaucracy run amok?
west1890 commented:
It’s the United Nations Agenda 21………coming to a town near you any day now, including
Smart Meters, ad nauseum………. the agenda of these people is more horrific than you can imagine. Think Cass Sunstein…one of the most dangerous people you can imagine.
Catseye commented:
Randtroll, you clueless slut, you can’t even keep your fake facts right. There is no methane to release in ice. You DON’T understand the Right, and prove you ignorance and folly in everything you type. YOU are your OWN worst enemy, enjoy your HELL you built it, and YOUR living in it! AND YOU WILL NEVER ESCAPE IT!
#1AMERICAN commented:
Time to get rid of the corrupt EPA…worthless
bear commented:
The team of outside experts, hired from occupy wall street.
Rose commented:
“What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. Papers, 12:356.
Nelle commented:
Yes, the EPA should be eliminated. Now, how do we stop saying it and make it happen? Is there a bill?
jhump commented:
i are entelligant
JPeden commented:
I took a brief look at the EPA’s bureaucratic Manifesto no doubt in preparation for their many other brilliant disquisitions, which even a paper shredder probably couldn’t stomach.
But, hey, for our $700,00, the experts and staff really did have two meetings, weekly conference calls, then a whole week of discussion and drafting! With 149 references!
There within, they fondly invoked the “Three pillars”, “social, environmental, and economic”, upon which to base, sustain, and control our lives.
Of course, “Stakeholders” – those who hold official WH Party-goer Visas – should be involved throughout the process.
But, no worries, “environmental justice” is a screening tool! And there is even a “suite” of “Environmental Justice Tools”!
Models, just like Climate Science’s Warming Models, will be made ready to tell us the truth!
Likewise, where real science and numbers just don’t suffice, “qualitative” estimates of “certainty” will be supplied by the experts.
“Ecosystems Services Valuation” will require monetizing them and integrating their value by a process just “such as the Global Change Assessment Model [GCAM] arose in the study of climate change, bringing together global circulation models and economic models to assess the probalble benefits and costs of alternative energy- and climate-policy choices.”
No worries, “sustainability assessment and management…[will] use scenario analysis…A scenario is a plausible story about how the future might unfold from current conditions given assumptions about biophysical porcesses, human behavior, policy, and institutions…[such as] the ‘Special Report on Emission Scenarios [SRES] of the IPCC…” which failed to make even one correct prediction.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
End this wasteful agency now.
Ideally, after the agency was disbanded, its management, executives, and overzealous employees would be sued into penury by everyone that suffered at the EPA’s hands.
JPeden commented:
The “staff” probably wrote the whole “sustainability” Manifesto. I think if I had an average computer algorithm for generating bureaucratese’, green, and what passes as “peer reviewed” NAS “climate change” bs, I could have done it in about an hour. And I’ve never been any thing close to a bureaurcrat!