Delingpole:
Christmas Is Here, Everyone! EPA Officials Are ‘Leaving in Droves’
by James Delingpole 22 Dec 2017
Environmental Protection
Agency officials are
“leaving in droves”, reports the New
York Times.
More than 700 people have left the Environmental
Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that
puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of
shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration.
What marvellous news to ease us all into the festive
Christmas spirit, eh readers?
Why, it’s like the final scene in A Christmas Carol
where Scrooge repents of all his miserliness, his nephew Fred gets a big fat
turkey, Bob Cratchit gets a pay rise and Tiny Tim declares “God bless us,
every one!”
Not, of course, that this is quite the way the New
York Times sees it. It wants us to believe that this is an attack on both science
and the environment.
Within the agency, science in particular is taking a hard
hit. More than 27 percent of those who left this year were scientists,
including 34 biologists and microbiologists; 19 chemists; 81 environmental
engineers and environmental scientists; and more than a dozen toxicologists,
life scientists and geologists. Employees say the exodus has left the agency
depleted of decades of knowledge about protecting the nation’s air and water.
Many also said they saw the departures as part of a more worrisome trend
of muting
government scientists, cutting research budgets and making it more
difficult for academic scientists to serve on
advisory boards.
Actually, though, what it really is is #winning.
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is achieving what
President Trump appointed him to do. He is draining the swamp.
As I’ve argued before, the EPA has always had less to do
with protecting the environment – Colorado
gold mine, anyone? – than it does with killing business.
Essentially, it is a communist sleeper cell
introduced to the heart of the U.S. government system by Richard Nixon in the
mistaken belief that paying Danegeld to your enemies will make them leave you
alone.
Previous Republican presidents – such as the Bushes –
were far too squishy to dare reform it.
Democrat presidents, most notably Obama, used it as a way
of bypassing Congress and imposing on the U.S. a United-Nations-driven
globalist agenda almost entirely inimical to the interests of American
citizens.
The most egregious example of this was the EPA’s
Endangerment Finding, which declared carbon dioxide – and various
other harmless trace gases – to be a threat to “the public health and welfare
of current and future generations.”
This was a political decision, not a scientific one,
forced through by Obama’s hatchetwoman Lisa Jackson.
As Dennis Ambler argued at the time in this Science
and Public Policy paper:
The EPA is effectively no longer under the control
of the US Congress; its allegiance is to the UN and implementation of the
policies of Sustainable Development via Agenda 21. It has considerable
involvement in the IPCC reports and claims the UN body as a peer reviewed
authority, in pursuing ever more rigorous controls of “CO2 pollution”, to bring
about the realisation of “environmental governance”.
Whilst Lisa Jackson is currently the face on the box at
the EPA, she is simply carrying out the tasks expected of her by the globalist
movement in setting the scene for more international control, under the
leadership of the United Nations.
Most of the EPA authors of the Endangerment
Technical Support Document were economists and
environmental policy specialists with qualifications like Masters in
International Affairs or Public Policy or Management. Those few that were
scientists were bought and paid up members of the UN/IPCC establishment,
with no interest in questioning the alarmist consensus.
The junk science of the Endangerment Finding was in turn
responsible for Obama’s monumentally destructive Clean Power Plan, which drove
up energy
prices, hit U.S. economic competitiveness and killed jobs.
Anyone who thinks it’s sad that 700 EPA officials have
lost their jobs should maybe consider the 50,000 workers in the U.S. coal
industry alone who lost their jobs as a result the EPA-enforced Clean Power
Plan.
Of all the many disastrous decisions made by the Obama
administration, probably the most dishonest and damaging was the one
whereby it branded the harmless trace gas which helps plants to grow as
public enemy number one.
The EPA was an unaccountable agency promulgating a
massive lie to the detriment of the American people, their freedoms and their
livelihoods.
Donald Trump has given America a good many reasons to
celebrate this Christmas. His defanging of the EPA might well be the
greatest one of them all.
Let’s connect the dots:
Science
Science
is a publication for the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
Note: William K. Reilly
was a fellow at the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and the chairman emeritus for the ClimateWorks Foundation.
George
Soros is a member of
the Bretton Woods Committee, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a supporter for the Center
for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the ClimateWorks Foundation, the Center
for American Progress, and the Climate
Reality Project.
Carol M. Browner
is a director at the Center for American
Progress, the energy czar for the Barack
Obama administration, a director at the Climate Reality Project, and an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Orin S. Kramer is
a director at the Climate Reality
Project, and was an administrator for the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Lee M. Thomas was a
director at the Climate Reality Project,
and an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Albert A. Gore Jr.
is the chairman for the Climate Reality
Project, and an adviser at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers.
William R.
Hearst III is a partner emeritus at Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Carnegie
Institution for Science, was a trustee a the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and a fellow at the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
Science
is a publication for the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
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