Republican war on science

Milagro said:
Pay attention, I didn't say, and nor does the Bloomberg article, that all the money went to the EPA. But it is undoubtedly true that Obama did his level best to ensure that a fuckton of money was buried across many agencies. Even going to the lengths of deliberately misnaming funds to ensure even greater invisibility.

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Tom that's just simply deep State nuttery. There is no way anyone could verify such accusations either way.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Nonsense. The changes in EPA from Clinton to Bush II to Obama and going into Trump have been largely minor or amendments to the major acts. If you want to talk about large sweeping changes in Environmental law and EPA as an evangelizing agency then you'd want to take a Good look at who signed the major acts into law.

Environmental Protection Act - 1970 Nixon
CAA - 1963 Johnson
FIFRA - 1972 Nixon
SDWA - 1974 Nixon
RCRA - 1976 Ford
TSCA - 1976 Ford
CERCLA - 1980 Carter
EPCRA - 1986 Reagan
SARA - 1986 Reagan
CAA Amendment - 1990 Bush

Those were just the major acts signed into law. Notice who's name is missing? Only one significant environmental law, though not a major act, was signed by the Obama administration. That was the Chemical Safety act of 2016. Significant but hardly of the scope of the CAA or RCRA.

As for enforcement I think if you'll take the time to look there were more enforcement actions, particularly against the oil and gas industry under George W. Bush than under Obama. From my anecdotal experience...there wasn't a whole lot of difference.

So I don't know where you're getting your information but it doesn't jive with the reality on the ground.

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Right. I have seen no "overreach" or EPA running amuck in the last decade, and I am in a position to know. As I suspect you are Mottley.

EPA "overreach" is just a buzzword. I have seen the Reich Wing say the same damn thing for the past 30 years. But oddly enough, only when a Democrat is president.

Message board Reich wingers aren't even in a position to have an informed opinion about this. They are just repeating and parroting what they heard from Reich Wing blogs and Fox News.

The ironic thing, is that Reich wingers who wail about EPA' supposed threat to the economy and the American way of life, are the exact same Reich Wingers who were quiet as church mice when Wall Street megabanks raped the American economy and almost thrust us into a Second Great Republican Depression.
 
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Mr.Badguy said:
Islamic extremism barely nudges the needle of causes of death among the population of Americans, but I guess that's all cool too, right?
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Yes I guess 9/21 is just a distant event to you now.
Cypress said:
Right. I have seen no "overreach" or EPA running amuck in the last decade, and I am in a position to know. As I suspect you are Mottley.

EPA "overreach" is just a buzzword. I have seen the Reich Wing say the same damn thing for the past 30 years. But oddly enough, only when a Democrat is president.

Message board Reich wingers aren't even in a position to have an informed opinion about this. They are just repeating and parroting what they heard from Reich Wing blogs and Fox News.

The ironic thing, is that Reich wingers who wail about EPA' supposed threat to the economy and the American way of life, are the exact same Reich Wingers who were quiet as church mice when Wall Street megabanks raped the American economy and almost thrust us into a Second Great Republican Depression.
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Maybe you have forgotten, conveniently of course, that Bill Clinton signed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act that repealed Glass-Steagall and allowed casino banking to thrive?

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