This might make you mad. That’s even more reason to read about it.
$1.9 million in environmental justice grants 10th May 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1.9 million in environmental justice grants to 76 non-profit organizations and local governments working on environmental justice issues nationwide. The grant program supports Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priority to expand the conversation on environmentalism and work for environmental justice.
And it isn’t just in the USA, the EPA is giving US taxpayer money to Brazilian programs. Think that’s bad? They are giving money to China too, as if the Chinese need our help.
Project Title: Methane Atlas Energy Gen. in Brazilian Landfills
Grant ID Number: XA – 83604601-0
Recipient Name: Abrelp Associacao Brasileira De Empres De Limp Pub
Award Date: 01/08/2011 Cum Award: $160,000
Project Start: 01/08/2011 Project End: 31/01/2013
To develop a publication, the “Atlas of GHG Emission and Energy Potential by Waste Destination in Brazil.” This will provide up-to-date information on waste management in the country, the types of final waste disposal in each geographic area broken down by state, waste management as a renewable energy resource for Brazil, the potential for GHG emissions reductions, and finally the viable end-use options to be applied in the sector.
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Project Title: Scale-up of Biomass Stoves in Western China
Grant ID Number: XA – 83366201-2
Recipient Name: China Assoc. of Rural Energy Industry
Award Date: 28/04/2010 Cum Award: $230,000
Project Start: 01/08/2007 Project End: 31/01/2011
The China Association of Rural Energy Industry will help 100,000 Chinese adopt cleaner technologies that improve health while protecting the environment (reducing deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions).
Full report here: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/sample_grants.pdf
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Luther Wu says:
August 29, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Gunga Din says:
August 29, 2012 at 1:58 pm
If you think it’s a good idea for the USEPA to give money to Red China, you are a Redneck.
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Hey GD-
I know you are trying to be funny and mimic Jeff Foxworthy, but he would never tell that joke.
Jeff knows that a real redneck would get red faced at the thought of the EPA’s idiocy.
We’ll hear what real rednecks have to say in November.
Hopefully, there are a whole bunch of us out there.
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Sorry I wasn’t clear. I wasn’t refering to our good ol’ American redneck but the Communist variety. (That’s why I said “Red” China instead of The People’s Republic of China.)
Lisa P. Jackson says the atmosphere is pollution:
31 second video
andy says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Just asking here, what does this post have to do with the numbers acquired and analyzed in regards to the climate? This appears to be more of a political / xenophobic subject matter. I think posts like this one diminish your site and your message.
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The overall point has to do with wasted money based on CAGW. Is there a political aspect? Of course. A private company wouldn’t be blowing all this money on windmills and such without govenment subsidies. The green alternatives are not efficient or cost effective.
It’s bad enough for us here in the US that we’re wasting money in our own country on CAGW but this post has to do with the US wasting money on broken hockey sticks in other countries as well. On top of that there are Constitutional issues as well.
Nothing “xenophobic” about those concerns.
So you guys have the debt clock ticking away and you’ve got money to give to…China!?
I’m glad I live in Australia where nothing like this is happening…OH WAIT!
Garrett says:
August 29, 2012 at 1:32 am
Your kidding right? You’re angry at a grants program that is “designed to help communities understand and address environmental challenges and create self-sustaining, community-based partnerships focused on improving human health and the environment at the local level”?
And you call it “warming money”? Such a grants program would make sense even without the issue of global warming.
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No, I’m angry because the federal government borrows over 40 cents out of every dollar we spend. You’re thinking is what is driving the world’s money problems.
Got a problem? Let the the government (not just the US government but most governments) borrow some money and give it away. That should fix any problem. Need a windmill, borrow some money. Need a solar panel, borrow some money. If we borrow enough money we can fix all the world’s environmental and energy problems.
If Boston ( or any other town) has a problem with their lead or their drinking water or their subway or their teacher’s union Boston should fix their problems and get the fed and my tax money out of Boston. The federal grants programs are not my answer to their every problem. Maybe the good people of Boston should redefine their priorities. I didn’t take Boston to raise.
ferdberple says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:57 am
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That sounds like it would be a fair tax system.
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omnologos says:
August 28, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Why the outrage? The amounts are peanuts and clean stoves a good idea.
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The US federal government is up to its ears in DEBT!
In 2010 Mr. Prasad told the commission that China probably holds about $1.7 trillion in U.S. government debt. In Feb of 2012 Randy Forbes says the national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American
Give me one good reason we should borrow MORE from the Chinese to turn around and give to the Chinese people. If they have so much money to lend then let THEM foot the frecken bill. They are supposed to be the good little socialist aren’t they?
Oh and here are some nasty statistics for you
Looks like the plans to reduce the USA to a third world country are working out just fine.
ferdberple says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:39 am
What to put America back to work? Move the EPA to China.
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Best Idea I have heard yet but I would go one better. Lets ship all the traitors in the District of Criminals to China and that includes all the bureaucratic lifers and lobbyists.
J says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:48 am
Vote the bums out? Can we not see that our public dialogue is limited to Team A and Team B? Would you like the red or blue kool-aid? ….. A few dollars to China and Brazil is laughably small change–a distraction Does no one remember the greatest theft in history–the corporatist team A and corporatist team B approved bailouts?
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You forgot the really big one. In 2008 the US Money supply was $831 billion. In 2009 it was $1663 billion. That is up $921 billion in BRAND NEW MONEY hot off the press.
Did you get that? This is the key point. When money is devalued the first pigs to the trough steal the wealth of the late comers. Newly printed fiat money does not create new wealth it just transfers it from the poor, who are always the last to the trough, to the rich. The size of the pie (real wealth) does not change just the number of dollars it is divided by. In other words if you had a savings account or a pension fund they just stole half of it.
OH, and speaking of pension funds. How much of your company’s pension money is going into the “Green Industry” and inflating that next big bubble? How much of that wealth is going to be lost when the bubble bursts and the Movers and Shakers and financial fat cats walk away before the bottom drops out.
Here is an example.
Gore Pocketed ~$18 Million from Now-Defunct Chicago Climate Exchange
Although the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) collapsed and shut down this week, Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP pocketed approximately $17.8 million on it’s 2.98% share of the exchange when it was sold to the publicly traded Intercontinental Exchange a mere 6 months ago. According to news reports, the brainchild of the exchange, academic Richard Sandor, founded the exchange with a foundation gift of $1.1 million, and pocketed $98.5 million…
andy says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Just asking here, what does this post have to do with the numbers acquired and analyzed in regards to the climate? This appears to be more of a political / xenophobic subject matter. I think posts like this one diminish your site and your message….
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This site would not exist if it were not for the money hungry politicians using CAGW as a method for scaring more money out of people. Therefore the end use of CAGW is very much part of the “science”
It is MY pocket that is being picked. It is MY business that is being regulated. It is MY land that is being rezoned. If you are a brain-washed college kid or apartment dwelling wage slave you might not have noticed yet how much of your life is now spend as a slave to the Regulating Class but I have.
1.9 million dollars! Wow! That almost tops the 700 Billion dollars Saudi Arabia alone makes every day exporting crude oil.
Fossil fuel industry does not stand a chance.
If you want to follow the money, try going where the money is.
1750 West of Boston, found in family letters, Redneck indicative of station in life. Easily discerned by the sunburn of the neck from stooping while hoe-weeding of the farm plot located outside of the village. Non rednecks were those that were comfortably afforded the hiring of persons to do their hoe work and by all reason had the largest acreage to hoe. Many original Rednecks would in their need for cash, hire-out to do others hoe work.
The Non-Redneck’s were dominate in local politics and the association of pursuing, in some abstract way the continuation or rejection of the Coercive Acts-King George3. Some of the non-rednecks became prominent members of the First Continental Congress, that evolved into the Second Continental Congress that in time promoted the concept of Representative Governance. Their names became familiar with that Founding. That Act was in a removed part an allowance of unlimited taxation, like on Boston Tea of the Davison Newman & Co. Ltd. of London, a recepient of special interests from the King . Not so unlike, as written, the 16th Amendment that gave IRS the current arbitrator of just ‘Tax’ collection.
Voting Bums out may generate New bums. Power over another person is the greed of all greed. In my view the IRS has perfected the slip-slop of vacuum lift to above the 29.9 Hg. Defying the law of physics that allows foolish spend of Non-revenue.
Chuck Nolan:
I am from Worcester, 40 miles outside of Boston. It would be “classic” if you were the Chuck Nolan I am thinking of.
BTW, you are spot on with your last post.
A fan.
I see…
Grant aid to Brazil as they are going to spend huge amounts of money on the Olympics in 4 years’ time and so can’t afford anything else.
Grant aid to China to aid 100,000 people. Remind me what the population figure for China is these days? I don’t get the impression that China needs largesse.
The Good Ol’ US of A is obviously as daft about politically correct largesse to the ‘needy’ as is the UK (think about aid to India). Never mind our own aging populations being short of proper care, heating and food.
Hmmm.
On November 6, let’s cut the legs out from underneath the EPA, the Employment Prevention Administration. The bureaucracy is out of control and needs defunding.