Junkscience.com reports that:
EPA official Al Armendariz who rocketed to infamy last week because of 2010 comments about “crucifying” industry, has resigned from the agency.
Click for his resignation letter. (PDF)
Here’s the source of the uproar, this video:
Inhofe wasted no time going after this public servant turned crucifier.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, announces that he has launched an investigation into the Obama-EPA’s apparent “crucify them” strategy targeted at American energy producers. This investigation will look into EPA’s actions towards domestic energy production specifically in light of the agency’s recent efforts relating to hydraulic fracturing.
Inhofe’s announcement today follows several questionable statements from top EPA officials, including comments released in a little-watched video from 2010, which reveals EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that EPA’s “general philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of oil and gas companies.
Unfortunately, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds more just like him at the EPA, an organization that seems to be at war with the industry of the United States of America, and the people too. See:
The EPA and undisclosed human experimentation
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Is the bus he was thrown under powered by Big Oil?
One down, several hundred to go. The term “sysiphean” comes to mind.
Oops, that’s “sisyphean”, as in “learning how to spell is a sisyphean task.” 🙂
10 more fanatics are ready to take his place and work tirelessly to de-industrialize the USA>
Another Obama sycophant discovers that letting the little people know what you really think will result being thrown under the bus. He was useful but Obama cannot let people find out what his real goals are. Remember that if he should be re-elected he will be more flexible (dangerous) with the likes of Putin.
Obviously he believes that the Constitution does not apply to him.
There needs to be a purge of “nutters” at the EPA. A shedding of extremists from the top downwards. A large dose of realism!
To try to establish some kind of common sense to their thinking.
You know, make examples of them……..
Now if the guy who hired him and continues to do the hiring will just resign…
I bet there’s a few companies that have been the victim of ‘EPA cruxifiction” lawyering up right now…
EPA is the first place I would look to make some serious funding cuts with an eye to bringing the Federal budget into balance with projected revenue. A 40 percent real reduction would be a good start.
Is there a “Hall of Climate Science Infamy”?
Gore, Hansen, Mann, Jones, Gleick, Romm, McKibben, Armendariz … the list grows, but not surprisingly: CO2 is a fertilizer.
Josh, you there?
Did he resign or they made him resign?
His surname is basque, oh the shame!
Trouble is…. Al Armendariz at the EPA is a true believer… for real…. he’d be one of the guys holding the gun to the heads of the people forced to drink the blue Kool-Aid. Remember Jonestown Mass “Suicide” of 914 people?
I’m no fan of the EPA these days, which, apparently, is run by a group of know-nothing anti-science Nimrods. But I don’t object to what Armendariz said here in terms of his right to say it (there was a little context twisting here too). I might disagree with him. But I would rather a person in his position stated clearly where he was coming from, felt comfortable saying what he truly believed, instead of feeling compelled to hide the truth. Let Mr. Armendariz say what he wants without fear of the thought police coming after him. First Amendment and all that (big fan).
Reminds me of a time we assiduously prepared for an OSHA inspection to make sure we would do well. When the inspector finally showed up, the poor guy couldn’t find any infractions. He fretted almost to the point of agony. When I tried to cheer him up by remarking that a perfect inspection must be an exceptionally good thing, he replied, “No, you don’t understand. I have to find something wrong. That’s my job. If I can’t find anything to write you up for, my bosses will think I’m not doing my job properly.”
I’m dissapointed in the above summary of this issue. Nowhere does it mention that what this guy was saying was that he was crucifying violators to make an example and get other violators to comply with regulations because he didn’t have the manpower to go after every violator. This is a standard and legitimate tactic of prosecutors and regulators. It’s not anti industry. There is nothing wrong with it.
Now, now, taken in context his comment was to the effect that the EPA should make examples of law breaking industries. Of course if this were extended to mean fossil fuel burning industries that would change things just a little–but that would be better described as bombing us back to the stone age. –AGF
Was he simultaneously appointed to be the Ambassador to Barbados?
Michelle O. says her fantasy is to walk out of the White House….. and just keep on going. Please help us make that a reality for both Michele and Barry O. this November!
He is doing the job he is ordered to do. This was a man carrying out his mission, and his mission wasnt personal but set from the top down. There is where resignations ( the correct way, vote the person setting this agenda out of office) should start. Sen Inhofe would do well to stress that point
My hotair comment on this story:
When the EPA attacks American energy production they, circumventing congress, are supposedly doing this to protect us from the climate changing.
Bull-hockey. There is a deeper goal. It is the (fanciful and unrealistic) leftist dream of de-industrialized simple idyllic life. The leftist politicians and their media & “scientific” allies (climatologists are actually just a pawn in a bigger drama) start with the premise that cutting back on industrial civilization would be good. CO2 cuts (thus cutting energy production) pave the way. Global Warming is the handy bogeyman to use to push for these co2 cuts. They’ll take whatever they can get. If they get it all, we’re back to the stone age. Two quotes from the leftist nuts:
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that.. the threat of global warming.. would fit the bill… the real enemy is humanity itself….humanity requires .. a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is a real one, or one invented for the purpose.” — Club of Rome
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” –Daniel Botkin, ex Chairman of Environmental Studies at UCSB
I wonder which George Soros organization Al Armendariz will turn up at next. My guess is “Green For All.” It was started by Van Jones and funded by George Soros’s Open Society Institute. I’m sure they would welcome anyone who wants to crucify the oil industry.
Why does that picture of him in a mobile “classroom” send a shiver down my spine ?
Suspect it’s a mobile indoctrination center meant to brainwash our youngest citizens.
He might be just repeating the “philosophy” he was told to follow. Go to the head of the agency to know where this is coming from, really.
This graph on CT so its all stopped at 2010 so you cant see that its back to normal
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2010.png
As I see it the EPA is in it for the loot that can be extracted by “crucifying” any company that violates one of its myriad rules.
The same result could be effected by sending a warning letter to the company in question, telling them to cease and desist violating the rule, or fines would follow. Give them a reasonable time period to comply.
99.9% of all companies would promptly change their methods to comply with the EPA, since they know the EPA could make good on its threat. But the fact that the EPA goes directly into crucifixion mode makes it clear that they are doing it strictly to extort money.
So I’m with those who say: Declare environmental victory, and eliminate the EPA. They are no longer needed. At this point, States can do the job better, cheaper, and far more ethically.
Finally, it will be very interesting to see where Mr. Crucifier ends up. No doubt he’s already got a cushy job he can slide into, just like the despicable Van Jones. The EPA can’t have a disgruntled insider out there writing a tell-all book now, can they?
I just listened to Senator James M. Inhofe video… wow, no wonder Ron Paul wants to shut the EPA down if he gets elected.