EPA moves to suspend more employees who signed letter of dissent against Trump admin policies

WASHINGTON—The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing today titled, “Oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.” Members exposed how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Biden Administration has operated outside its rulemaking authority and implemented burdensome regulations and sweeping executive orders to advance President Biden’s radical environmental agenda and appease left-wing climate activists. During the hearing, members pressed EPA Administrator Michael Regan on the Administration’s record-shattering $1.6 trillion in estimated new federal regulatory costs and emphasized how American consumers and businesses are shouldering the financial burden across the country. The House Oversight Committee will continue to investigate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement at the EPA to ensure accountability and transparency for the American people.

Key Takeaways:

Under the leadership of Administrator Michael Regan, the Biden Administration’s EPA has pushed massive, costly regulations to advance President Biden’s radical environmental agenda.

To date, EPA is responsible for over 80 percent of the Biden Administration’s record-shattering $1.6 trillion in new federal regulatory costs and Americans are paying the price.

The EPA is overreaching its environmental protection authorities extensively, flouting the limits the Supreme Court set upon them two years ago in West Virginia v. EPA and adopting statutory interpretations that will not pass muster under the Court’s recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.

The Biden Administration must put the interests of the American people first, and not simply aim to appease well-organized, left-wing special interest groups and climate scaremongers.

Member Highlights:

Rep. Gary Palmer (R- Ala.) asked EPA Administrator Regan to provide reports to the Committee about its use of secretive “sue-and-settle” practices and implementation of burdensome regulations at the bidding of special interests.

The House. LOL
 
They are not the only agency where the employees are always looking over their shoulder. Must be a great atmosphere to work in.

Notice that the biggest problems seem to be agencies staffed by scientists. Of course, they recognize that a president who recommends horse dewormer or suggests some sort of bleach treatment for COVID, is a fucking idiot.

And the anticipated Revenge Tour continues.
actually...

you;re the idiot for trusting Nazi big pharma with a hangnail.

you're very dumb.
 
Federal employees DO NOT get to set US national or foreign policy. We have elected officials, like the President, who do that. A federal employee can personally disagree with those policies but cannot do so in any manner that clashes with their official position and duties. By signing a letter of dissent as federal employees, they directly challenged US national policy as set by the elected administration and President.

That is an action that can result in disciplinary action or firing. In this case, they were fired. That is long standing federal employment law and regulations.

So, if some greentards at the EPA don't like what Trump is doing, they can quit, they can complain outside of work individually without using their job title, etc., but they can't tell the President how to do his job or what national policy will be. They deserved to be fired, and fired they were. That others are getting a 14-day suspension is absolutely in line with federal employment regulations.

They're basically admitting they will refuse to do their jobs when they don't like a policy, as if they somehow are entitled to decide which policies they like and which ones they don't or something. Nobody is forcing them to work there, so they need to quit. Since they didn't, they get fired.
 
Federal employees DO NOT get to set US national or foreign policy. We have elected officials, like the President, who do that. A federal employee can personally disagree with those policies but cannot do so in any manner that clashes with their official position and duties. By signing a letter of dissent as federal employees, they directly challenged US national policy as set by the elected administration and President.

That is an action that can result in disciplinary action or firing. In this case, they were fired. That is long standing federal employment law and regulations.

So, if some greentards at the EPA don't like what Trump is doing, they can quit, they can complain outside of work individually without using their job title, etc., but they can't tell the President how to do his job or what national policy will be. They deserved to be fired, and fired they were. That others are getting a 14-day suspension is absolutely in line with federal employment regulations.
They are educated professionals doing their jobs. Trump is an idiot blustering around. Trump has his stupidity infecting all agencies. You see Trump as king and all he says must be followed. He is wrong and doing real damage.
 
First, you have to define the pollutant, and what it is polluting.
Naturally occurring gases in the atmosphere, of course, are not pollutants.
That's for the person answering my question to do. The usual answer I get from the Left on How much pollution should we allow? is, "None!" Of course, that answer is all at once, naïve, impossible to achieve, and insane, but it's usually the one they give.
 
They are educated professionals doing their jobs. Trump is an idiot blustering around. Trump has his stupidity infecting all agencies. You see Trump as king and all he says must be followed. He is wrong and doing real damage.
Many at the EPA are not professionals but rather political activists with an agenda of radical environmentalism and using what amounts to pseudoscience and secrecy to push that agenda.

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They're basically admitting they will refuse to do their jobs when they don't like a policy, as if they somehow are entitled to decide which policies they like and which ones they don't or something. Nobody is forcing them to work there, so they need to quit. Since they didn't, they get fired.
They've grown used to the agency being aligned with the radical Leftist environmental front and doing what they please in cooperation with that political alignment. Now they are facing a realignment away from those groups and don't like it because they agree with those groups. That resulted in their written complaint with the full expectation that they'd get their way. Instead, they're being fired and given time off without pay as punishment. I expect lots will resign shortly in a tantrum rather than continue with the agency.
 
They've grown used to the agency being aligned with the radical Leftist environmental front and doing what they please in cooperation with that political alignment. Now they are facing a realignment away from those groups and don't like it because they agree with those groups. That resulted in their written complaint with the full expectation that they'd get their way. Instead, they're being fired and given time off without pay as punishment. I expect lots will resign shortly in a tantrum rather than continue with the agency.
Radical leftys are 99 percent of the environmental professionals. They have education and experience in the field. Trump inserts people with ultra-radical incorrect beliefs not backed with a scintilla of evidence. They know nothing of the field, but are there to destroy environmentalism from the inside.
 
Radical leftys are 99 percent of the environmental professionals. They have education and experience in the field. Trump inserts people with ultra-radical incorrect beliefs not backed with a scintilla of evidence. They know nothing of the field, but are there to destroy environmentalism from the inside.
They're idiots. I don't care that they got educated by others with similar views to their own. Their views on environmentalism are generally "Zero tolerance" on everything. They, like you, can't adequately answer the simple question, How much pollution should we allow? How much is acceptable?

It is the radical Left that is destroying things from the inside. They have fixed ideas on what needs to be done and what areas of pollution are to be addressed first and foremost. Their myopia is all pervasive. Worst, when their ideas result in disaster they walk away as if nothing happened and they had nothing to do with it.

I hold up the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado as a perfect example of that. Had that been a private company, not the EPA, responsible they've of been sued out of business. People would have gone to jail. Instead, after the EPA caused a massive disaster polluting several major river systems and wrecking the livelihoods of thousands, they washed their hands of the whole thing, said they couldn't be sued, and in short gave all those affected the finger. That's how the radical Leftist environmental front rolls.
 
They are not the only agency where the employees are always looking over their shoulder. Must be a great atmosphere to work in.
Don't like it? Quit. Save yourself some time and go find another job. Of course, that attitude will make hiring you problematic, and if you do get hired, you will probably be fired anyway.
Notice that the biggest problems seem to be agencies staffed by scientists.
Science isn't a government agency, Dumber.
Of course, they recognize that a president who recommends horse dewormer
I assume you mean Ivermectin. It is approved for human use, Dumber. It has shown effectiveness in treating a Covid infection as well.
or suggests some sort of bleach treatment for COVID, is a fucking idiot.
You are describing Democrats again, Dumber. Inversion fallacy.
And the anticipated Revenge Tour continues.
Good! Get rid of unelected losers in government that are:

* Routing money to slush funds.
* Wasting money on pet projects like funding deviant behavior, wacky religions like 'global warming', etc.
* Not useful.
* Revolt against elected officials, particularly their own boss.
* Revolt against the Constitution of the United States.
* Call for civil war against citizens of the United States (an act of treason).
* Support invasions of the United States (an act of treason).
* Support welfare programs for illegal aliens (an act of treason).
* Violate federal or State laws (felonies).
* Exceed their authority.
* Slander and libel of elected officials and/or citizens of the United States.

These are the Democrat bureaucrats, unelected, and otherwise known as The Swamp.
 
Inventing what I said again?
Thanks for admitting that Democrsts are concerned about environment and Republicans aren't.
Here we go again.
No shit, Sherlock?
Human made. Not natural.
Who? The criminal thugs?
Republicans fly in private jets too. So?
MAGA people left piles of filth too. So?
What homes and apartments?
Who "supports" that?
So you admit that Republicans don't care about environment? I don't see them doing anything about it.
No shit, Sherlock?
What did I say that was wrong?
Chanting again?
I didn't.
Imagining posts that aren't there won't help.
Roll them dice!
 
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