I’d ask EPA’s Lisa Jackson about the legality of “disappearing” the over $468,000 dollars in grants to Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute from the EPA grants database, then putting them back, all without any public notice. Since 2007, Gleick’s PI has received over 1 million in taxpayer’s money. In 2007 they got $647,000 dollars in two grants from the EPA, which also “disappeared” this week. When an FOIA request was made to the EPA, they mysteriously returned.
Source: Junk Science
By Steve Milloy
March 2 should be a date that lives in infamy for the Obama Environmental Protection Agency.
That day will most likely be the last opportunity for congressional Republicans to apply meaningful pressure on EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson as she testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the agency’s 2013 budget.
Over the past three years, the Obama EPA has conducted a scorched earth campaign against fossil fuel producers and users, especially the coal-fired power industry, with multibillion-dollar rules that provide no meaningful environmental or public-health benefits, like the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and the Mercury Air Toxics Standard (MATS).
The EPA will soon propose its greenhouse gas emission standards for power plants – rules that will attempt to make it financially impossible to construct new coal-fired power plants in the United States.
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Shell game?
‘The grants do not exist. The grants have never existed.’
‘These are not the grants you’re looking for.’
The Pacific Institute has been rather active in evaluating the effects of climate change in CA (with some funding from the CEC): “About 788 results” from
http://www.energy.ca.gov/serp.html?q=pacific+institute&cx=001779225245372747843%3Actr4z8fr3aa&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
When an government declares Carbon and Oxygen as a pollutant, then they have become anti-life. How is it possible the American people have been led down this absurd path? Where is the justification to taxing and regulation of air? What emergency is so great (other than fiscal)? What certain return, will the Americans receive from such draconian investment? What benefit? When will this be “explained” to the American public, other than just more propaganda, and climate alarmist double speak?
It is time for Americans to clean house before they are cleaned out. Instead we fund more liars and thieves like Gleick. The government must be held accountable and climate regulation postponed, at least until we have solid science and a working model. Does it sound like we have any of that… NOW?! GK
the EPA needs to be the receiver of scorched earth policies that tear it to shreds..along with its liberal/socialist/Marxist control policies. these people are using climate policy to control the populace and forward an agenda… they are traitors to the USA. they need to be dealt with swiftly and severely. they are not scientists, they are politicians with an agenda.
kakatoa says:
February 25, 2012 at 7:38 am
yes they have been active in Cali…. one need only look at the billions of dollars in debt they are and how it is bankrupt..and incapable of sustainment sucking off the teat of everyone else in the US. again smoothing that must be changed rapidly and with impunity…
Just you watch the Gleickbarrassment presented the EPA will end up in the shell game as well: “oh, but he was merely trying to save the world”
How does it go? Something like, “The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.” Thank God we have these watch-dogs, keeping an eye on the EPA. Are not we also thankful that Al Gore invented the internet?
Now the question becomes, “If you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, and put the cookies back, have you done anything wrong?”
I hope Lisa Jackson gets asked why the information vanished and then reappeared. It seems a most curious thing.
If the house proposes budget cuts for EPA for trying to regulate CO2 based on junk science (example: PI grant), the President will be placed between a rock and a hard spot. That is not a good place to be in an election year.
Now that would be a question Markey should ask!
Write to your representative – today. The EPA did an excellent job cleaning up the environment. Now is the time to thank them for a job well done and cut their budget in half, because we don’t need ever more regulations. That way lies folly. We are far past the point of a tiny bit cleaner at the cost of economic suicide. Half their current budget should be more than enough to police the current regulations. Lisa Jackson actually believes her story of EPA regulations creating jobs. She thinks that paying people to break windows helps create jobs in the replacement window business. There’s just no understanding of “What is wealth?” Wealth is having stuff you are willing to pay for, not having a job mandated by the EPA.
There was an accident with a gasoline tanker truck near here a week ago. The truck overturned and leaked some gasoline down the road shoulder. It took more than a dozen people working through the night to contain the spill (a small fraction of the load). Now, there’s a dozen large Dumpsters of scooped-up dirt waiting to be carried to a hazardous waste dump. GET A GRIP!! IT’S A HUNDRED GALLONS OF GASOLINE IN THE DESERT. NOTHING GROWS THERE ANYWAY. IN 6 MONTHS THE BACTERIA WILL HAVE EATEN THE SPILL WITH NO GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT. Just like the beaches all up and down the Atlantic coast from U-boat action against coastal tankers during WWII. No human cleanup and no oil after a few years.
Steve,
Thanks for you fine work digging this information up.
Here is another blogger uncovering interesting information pre-Gleick meltdown:
http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/where-do-we-draw-the-line/
Great work guys – time to compose that thoughtful letter to my congressman.
Sen. Inhofe needs to begin a formal inquiry into why this information disappeared, and additional FOIA requests made as to the source of the deletions, and subpoenas issued at EPA.
Then removal proceedings for Ms Jackson need to begin.
Then removal proceedings for Mr Chu need to begin.
Then removal proceedings for Mr Sotero need to begin.
Here in NE Oregon EPA is trying to kill one of the cleanest Cement plants in the
World. Due to the Mercury emissions.(Two BB’s in a boxcar) the wan no BB’s)
Yet at the same time they allow exploding Chinese Mercury bombs in our
lighting fixtures…..
Perhaps a FOIA requesst for intenal memos about removal and reinstatement of the webpage(s).
The EPA has been the home of bad science, bad scientists, and utopians for some 20 years. It seems to be a secure house for cranks and nut cases. The application process must be interesting. Do they give extra consideration for crazy rants, wild eyes and implausible beliefs?
‘Pay no attention to the grant behind the curtain.’
The same question applies to whomever decided to change the EPA web site and to Peter Geick – “Whatever were you thinking of?”
I’ll have to check to see if my congresscritter is involved with the EPA hearing and if so ask him to bring it up. It’s probably worth trying to contact Lisa Jackson directly and publically. While it will give her a chance to properly hide the shell with the pea, it should take away assertions that she doesn’t micro-manage things like web pages and isn’t aware of that action.
To get all the grant records from EPA to PI, go here:
http://www.usaspending.gov/advanced-search
In Recipient DUNS Number, enter: 860029271
In the Agency pulldown menu, scroll down and select EPA.
Gary,
Thanks for that link. Here are the results I got [summary view].
Tax dollars have been shoveled into the Pacific Institute for years – almost $650,000 to date.
And I’ll bet that Gleick is still getting his full salary and benefits from PI, even though he is ostensibly not working for them any more. Just like Phil Jones, who had his title temporarily suspended while he stayed in the same office and collected the same pay. Once the Jones whitewash was complete, his title was restored.
These dishonest people are cheating the public, and the EPA is misappropriating taxpayer funds, a crime. But with criminals running things, it appears that nothing will be done about it.
I’d ask EPA’s Lisa Jackson about the legality of “disappearing” the over $468,000 dollars in grants to Peter Gleick’s Pacific Institute from the EPA grants database, then putting them back, all without any public notice.
This is the modern practice of government, which differs from the theory of how government should operate.
First an action is deemed expedient and in their best interests so it is done.
Then it is pointed out the action is illegal.
Then comes the does it matter questions as to if it will be noticed, what are the damages if it is revealed, and if the action must be (reversed, stopped, not done again).
Then after it is discovered, it is determined what is the minimum illegality that can be admitted to, hopefully in the range of arguably an “honest mistake” to blamable on an underling many levels below those who actually made the decision.
Note that in cases of feelings of extreme self-importance, arising from feeling “the cause” is the most important thing of all and they are an integral part of it, step two might not happen until after discovery, but even if it did it’d be considered to not matter due to “service to the greater good.”
I’m sure Peter Gleick, as well as the current US federal administration, is familiar with this model of operation.
Environmental Perversion Agency.
If you go back in time go thru the climate gate emails, you will find Peter Gleick involved with Jones and Mann in the cover ups. As time goes on the the scope of the this government organized conspiracy to push climate propaganda is incredible. It is time to flush NASA, NOAA, EPA, and the DOE and all of those they funnel money to and start over.
Cut and paste a copy of the commucations from Lt. John F. Kerrys swiftboat patrol on the Hap River, when his boat and 4 others where on patrol. One of them hit an underwater mine.
Kerry sped his craft up went up strean some 1500 meters and back. In his request for a purple heart tht day he reported hostile fire from both sides of the river up and back. Reported heavy fire.
The one and only communication from the five boats at the time…
“We need a tow boat”
These people lie, they lie about the lies, and they are enabled by the msm to do so by the lies of the msm. They are a clear and present danger to freedom and all truth.
Fred H. Haynie says:
February 25, 2012 at 7:57 am
“If the house proposes budget cuts for EPA for trying to regulate CO2 based on junk science (example: PI grant), the President will be placed between a rock and a hard spot. That is not a good place to be in an election year.”
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Fred, the EPA basis for regulating the “pollutant,” Carbon Dioxide, is the decision of the eminent Climatologists of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case Massachusetts vs.. EPA (2007).
It is noted that the SCOTUS did not consider that life on Earth is Carbon based and the Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen cycle is mandatory (a favorite word for the current administration) for life on Earth to exist.
The only atmospheric trace gas capable of providing a greenhouse effect, is water vapor in the form of clouds which affect terrestrial heat loss, locally, by moderating upward convection. Is there another atmospheric trace gas that inhibits convection heat loss?
If greenhouse gases are a pollution problem, there should be legislation requiring catalytic converters on all greenhouses.
Ed,
I did research at EPA for over twenty years and one reason I retired early (over 20 years ago) was
the growing amount of political control over scientific research and research reports. The Supreme Court did not tell EPA that CO2 was a pollutant. It told them to determine if it was a pollutant as defined by the Clean Air Act and regulate accordingly. Their finding was based on the bad science of the IPCC and and some “sponsored research” like the PI grants. If they had followed the guidelines of the Clean Air Act and done good objective research, they could not have found CO2 to be a pollutant, much less devise a plan to control it. Alan Carlin told them as much and continues to do so. I’ve put my two cents in as well.( http://www.kidswincom.net/climate.pdf. )The real problem is that subjective research is being promoted and controlled by several layers of political appointees in agencies that are supposed to be doing objective research.