Trying to protect the Environment is tough. It is a task, that just might get you arrested.
It's almost like you need super-hero powers, just to see past the constant smokescreen that the "friends" of EPA keep spouting ...
Fox CLAIM: EPA Wants "230,000 New Employees" To Implement Climate Rules
* Fox & Friends: EPA Is "Now Going To Hire 230,000 New Employees." Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson stated that the EPA is "now going to hire 230,000 new employees to keep up with all the paperwork from all of these additional and new regulations." Steve Doocy added, "the EPA wants to somehow go ahead and regulate greenhouse gases. So to do that, they're going to have to hire 230,000 more employees at a cost of $21 billion." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/27/11]
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REALITY: EPA Said It Avoided A Scenario In Which 230,000 New Workers Would Be Necessary. Following the lead of the Daily Caller, Fox misrepresented a September 16 court filing which explains why the EPA issued the "tailoring rule" in May 2010. The rule narrowed the implementation of greenhouse gas regulations to avoid a scenario in which 230,000 employees would be needed to process permits at a cost of $21 billion. [Media Matters, 9/27/11]
MediaMatters -- October 13, 2011
Behold Viewers, witness that very rarest of TVee species -- that goes by the name of the "Facts". It sometimes shows up on rare occasions, shortly after its invasive counterpart, the "Falsehoods", has just finished swarmed the airways ...
But if some Foxy folks get their way, those Facts will soon be GONE, along with their latest, favorite Bully-goat -- The Environmental Protection Agency.
You know, the EPA -- that doesn't want to hire 230,000 Workers to save the planet. That EPA that just wants to go after the worst of the CO2 Polluters ... THAT EPA ...
No, EPA Is Not Hiring 230,000 Workers To Implement Climate Rules
MediaMatters -- Sept 27, 2011
EPA explained in a court brief that by phasing in greenhouse gas regulations and focusing on large sources of emissions, the agency avoids a scenario in which 230,000 new workers would be required. Somehow, the Daily Caller's Matthew Boyle concluded from this that "The EPA is asking taxpayers to fund up to 230,000 new government workers." Other conservative media outlets, including Fox News, repeated Boyle's false report.
{Quack, quack.}
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Industry Groups Are Challenging The Tailoring Rule.
A January 5 National Journal report explains why industry groups are challenging the "tailoring" rule even though the rule serves to reduce the regulatory burden on businesses:
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The problem with regulating carbon dioxide is that, unlike most pollutants, CO2 is ubiquitous: An estimated 6 million stationary sources, from enormous coal-fired power plants to schools, homes, churches, and farms, emit it. To avoid the specter of all that new government regulation, EPA issued a "tailoring" rule that would limit its regulation to the 15,000 biggest industrial polluters giant power plants, oil refineries, and factories.
But if industry lawyers, who will likely give oral arguments in late spring or early fall, succeed in legally undoing that tailoring rule, it will force EPA back into the politically and practically untenable position of regulating all those millions of entities, a scenario that lends itself perfectly to Republican attack ads against an overreaching, over-regulating federal government. [National Journal, 1/6/11, via Nexis]
Ugh! Too many words. Soooo little time.
Can some wise-ones on my TVee, sum it all up? Can they tell me what it all means?
Can someone just tell me, WHO I should "hate next"?
No worries, with the news-spewers at Fox & Friends just a click away -- Someone soon will ...
Here's are some of the other "Doocys" that these EPA-boosters have been telling.
Sadly much of America, is all too happy to believe them.
Fox News' War On The EPA
MediaMatters -- October 13, 2011
Fox's Top 10 Lies About The EPA This Year
1. EPA's Job Is "Done"
2. EPA Is Implementing A "Job-Killing" Agenda
3. The Obama Administration Has Launched A "War On Coal"
4. Coal Plant Emissions Aren't Linked To Asthma
5. Air Pollution Limits Threaten "A Fifth Of America's Electricity Generating Capacity"
6. EPA Wants "230,000 New Employees" To Implement Climate Rules
7. Small Businesses Pay "$4,100 Bucks Per Employee" To Comply With EPA Regulations
8. Obama Could Suspend EPA Rules With An Executive Order
9. Obama Administration's Vehicle Emission Regulations Are Unprecedented
10. EPA Is "Regulating Milk Spills"
Well it sure sounds like SOMEONE -- has their ducks in a row,
Those backward-facts-reading guys "quack" me up -- Too bad so much of America believes them, every time they sound the next honkin' alarm.
SOMEONE must be quite pleased with themselves. Yes Fox & Friends, "The EPA must be Stopped." Oh, now I see ...
That evil-EPA is 'Destroying those All-American, Polluters-make-the-rule Jobs' ... so it says my TVee.
That Guvmint-EPA is 'all that's wrong with the Economy and the World' ... Who will rid us of this phantom, bureaucratic menace?
Someone MUST End the EPA ... someone named Alec, will soon emerge from the shadows, to save the day.
Or so the story goes is going ... in the fantasy-cartoon-land, called Perpetual Morning in Reagan's America ...
Please, Give a Hoot -- Don't Pollute ... Take time, to Save a "Fact".
... while we still can ... {a single tear, trails off into the sunset} ...