From the Washington Times:
A House committee has launched an investigation into whether EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an email alias to try to hide correspondence from open-government requests and her agency’s own internal watchdog — something that Republican lawmakers said could run afoul of the law.
The science committee has asked Ms. Jackson to turn over all information related to an email account under the name of “Richard Windsor,” which is one of the aliases identified by a researcher looking into the EPA.
The committee has also asked the White House’s lawyer and EPA’s inspector general to look into the matter and report back by the end of this month, saying that the secret email accounts could have been used to keep key information from official watchdogs as well as the public.
Full story:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/17/congress-demands-epas-secret-email-accounts/
And who uncovered Richard Windsor?
The researcher who uncovered the “Richard Windsor” alias email, Christopher Horner, has repeatedly battled the administration over its global warming efforts.
Go Chris!
Help him out, buy the man’s book.
Christopher Horner is author of The Liberal War on Transparency: Confessions of a Freedom of Information “Criminal” (Threshold, October 2012).
“Four more years…”
4 MORE BEERS! 4 MORE BEERS!
_Jim says:
November 17, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Gale [_Jim: ?] Combs…
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I didn’t put that in.
Also the story in Wiki is not the one I heard decades ago while living in the area. (MSM strikes again with its lies painting a corporation black maybe?) Either way Hooker + Government ===> people poisoned. And yes it was Love Canal.
Re “Four more years” etc. The question is dear US cousins (though actually it seems to be a world wide. western problem) is, is your political system capable of producing a hands-on, common sense, practical president who can relate to the “average” voter / family? Sadly your system seems to produce left leaning characters who buy votes but only notice fiscal cliffs after they are elected. Or rich men whose very affluence prevents them understanding the needs on Main Street. Then stir in Republican extremists who simply cannot resist mouthing off their personal bias even though they know it will hurt the party. Unless you get the right candidate and these extremists under control get used to the idea that it won’t be another four years but another eight / twelve and today’s fiscal cliff will look like flat ground.
Speaking of leftists controlling organizations. I signed up for emails from the league of women voters so I would know when off-year bond elections were happening. After the Presidential election, they sent an email stating how proud they were to have fought voter ID. OK. Guess the socialists have that one. Then there is AARP. No wonder conservatives have had to start new organizations.
@ur momisugly MonktonofOz says:
November 17, 2012 at 3:03 pm
The “needs of main street” are best served by a robust economy. Romney understood how to do that. I’ll take a job over welfare any day, and so would many people on the dole in the US.
Jeff Alberts says: November 17, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Sean says: November 17, 2012 at 10:17 am
Why are we already doomed to loose to the eco-marxists?
I’m sure it’s due to poor grammar.
No, that pore speling, not grammer.
I didn’t know this. Now I know really why democrats and some republicans believe in global warming–they are being paid to get us to reduce our use of resources so the rest of the world can use them at a cheaper price and, they are trying to get us to sign on to cap-and-trade, carbon offsets, REDD and other schemes so they can get more of our wealth to build up economic infrastructure in their nations.
I thought the goal behind AGW was to redistribute our wealth to the developing world so that more women get to work so they have less babies?
Give it up. After four years of lies and dishonesty this country just re elected these idiots to four more. With that in hand they can do or say anything they want with the full on support of the lame stream media. Why would you expect the warmistas or the Democrats to stop lying? They just proved it works and we didn’t stop them. Our only hope is that they don’t do anything irreversable. I’m not holding my breath.
Looks look at this in steps, shall we (instead of taking the ultra-simplistic view that Hooker is simply bad)?
First up we have entrepreneur William T. Love who in 1894 began building a canal to connect the Niagara River to Lake Ontario. It didn’t work out so the 1/2 mile of ‘completed’ canal filled by now with water was simply abandoned and became a local swimming hole.
Next, we have one Mr. Elon H. Hooker (1869-1938) – His Education
The company he founded, Hooker Electrochemical Company, is featured here in an issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry did business in the Niagara Falls area.
In 1947 the canal is sold at public auction and Hooker Chemical picks it up. At that time the area was sparsely populated at the time and had an impermeable clay substrate (take note: this becomes important later when this impermeable clay substrate is ‘punctured’ and cut into by construction in the area which includes the school construction AND laying of water and sewer pipe plus storm drainage sewers), which made it a good location for a chemical waste landfill.
At this point going forward, we begin to have ‘monied’ interests and politics involved in the picture.
Wiki excerpt: “At the time of the dump’s closure, Niagara Falls was entering an economic boom and the population had surpassed 85,000, with the population expanding at record percentages. The Niagara Falls City School District needed land to build new schools, and attempted to purchase the property from Hooker Chemical that had been used to bury toxic waste. The corporation refused to sell, citing safety concerns, and took members of the school board to the canal and drilled several bore holes to demonstrate that there were toxic chemicals below the surface. However, the board refused to capitulate.”
in 1953 Hooker Chemical sold the site to the Niagara Falls School Board for $1, with a deed explicitly detailing the presence of the waste.
Despite the restrictions and risk stipulations in the deed conveyed to the Board of Education by Hooker, the Board decided to develop the land above the fill site and its surrounding area.
Warnings were ignore: “In January 1954, the architect of the school wrote to the education committee informing them that during excavation, workers discovered two dump sites filled with 55-US-gallon drums containing chemical wastes. The architect also noted that it would be “poor policy” to build in that area since it was not known what wastes were present in the ground, and the concrete foundation might be subsequently damaged.”
The Board authorized construction of an elementary school on the site in 1955, the city constructed a sewer line through the canal in 1960, and developers constructed homes and streets next to the site. The toxic chemicals stored there eventually seeped from their ruptured and deteriorated containers into the soil, basements, and storm sewers.
So, between the developers anxious to develop (the area around the city of Niagara Falls is ‘land locked’ by the river to one side so PROPERTY is valuable), the city and the school district both who disregarded the need to keep the impermeable clay substrate unpunctured and the stipulations in the deed, disaster was only a matter of time …
Had the canal existed intact to this day, other issue would no doubt have arisen, given factors such as inevitable ‘leeching’ of the various chemicals dumped into the ‘canal’ (the pit) by Hooker Chemicals ‘in the day’ … also realize that some of this dumping was done during wartime when push had turned to shove to ‘turn out’ a lot of product, including a LOT of various chemicals and compounds used by industry to support the war effort.
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@Gail Combs
“Then think of the Supreme Court ruling a corporation is a person and therefore can contribute to campaign funds.”
Citizens United did not create corporate personhood. The idea of corporate personhood in US law goes back almost 200 years.
The primary drivers behind this were that before corporate personhood the corporation itself could neither sue nor be sued. Another issue was that corporations could not form contracts in their own right.
If you reverse corporate personhood just to undo Citizens United what will happen is that anyone injured by a corporation would have to sue each of the shareholder’s and officers individually. Shareholder liability would still be limited to the value of each shareholder’s shares. To win against the corporate officers you would have to individually prove culpability for each officer. You would not be able to recover any funds being held by the corporation itself.
Do you really want to go there?
I’m sure this has already been noticed but Lisa Jackson’s bio when she was appointed by Governor Jon Corzine to lead New Jersey’s Department of Evnironmental Protection in 2006 stated:
“Commissioner Jackson is married to Kenny Jackson and is the proud mother of two wonderful sons, Marcus and Brian. The family lives in EAST WINDSOR, New Jersey.”
http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/commissioner/docs/lpjbio.pdf
@Pamela…
they attend a Marxist gathering…check
said gathering actually being paid for by their union…check
they remove people trying to get their views and reasoning….check
if it walks like a duck,quacks like a duck,and sh1ts like a duck…well.
Pls realize that 99% of teachers today ARE either socialist or marxist.It’s what their profs taught them.It is what it is,but calling a spade a spade is far better then ignoring and burying your head.
Or should people not call paedophiles that?
@Jim2 says The “needs of main street” are best served by a robust economy. Romney understood how to do that. I’ll take a job over welfare any day, and so would many people on the dole in the US.
Agree wholeheartedly but deliberately or otherwise you miss my point. Meaningless to say Romney “understood” when he LOST. The majority of voters did NOT vote for Romney because his views did NOT convince enough Main Street Americans. Had there been a Republican candidate who was seen to have more empathy with the average family / been of the people, the USA would have different president.
Eyes and ears open, always vigilant. Mouth, pen and keys – busy, or at the ready. Let not one stop shining light upon the Government “transparency”. Chris Horner – another diligent Hero!
To: Gary Pearse says:
November 17, 2012 at 9:34 am
I’m sorry, I’m new at this Internet stuff and lousy at keeping track of links, so can’t give them here. Essentially for most things they can’t or don’t have standard methods of calculating certainty, so it is set by “experts” usually the authors themselves. In other words, “Trust me. I know what I’m doing. Go away.”
To: George Orwell says:
November 17, 2012 at 10:24 am
Days ago I wrote both my Senators and my Representative about all these with practical suggestions, and mentioned Al Gore’s and Obama’s claims about ‘dirty weather’, and provided real information from official US, international, even IPCC sources. Do I expect to have any effect? Don’t be absurd.
The next big step (I expect within a generation or at most two, or with economic collapse) is Caesarism (strong wo/man rule). After that the long night. It isn’t inevitable, but I consider it probable, and am very glad it is unlikely I will live long enough to see it. I am very sorry for those who may.
To me we appear to be in Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”. I just hope we come out of them as well as we did in his fiction.
To: beesaman says:
November 17, 2012 at 11:15 am
I said the same in my letters.
To: Gail Combs says:
November 17, 2012 at 1:42 pm
You forgot to mention that not only can business corporations spend unlimited amounts on political propaganda, but that many US corporations are owned, controlled, or greatly influenced by foreigners. The Supreme Court not only accepted an absurdity, that a corporation considered a person by legal fiat for purposes of business should be considered a person in matters of human rights, but that foreigners should be allowed more influence in U. S. politics than citizens. In effect that affirmed the U. S. is not only a plutocracy but at least nearly a fascist state, by Mussolini’s definition: “A Fascist state is one where the difference between government and business is the thickness of a cigarette paper” (roughly translated from the Italian) Also, remember Fascist, and Nazi parties were both Socialist. Translated Hitler’s party is National Socialist Workers Party. The difference is merely in how socialism is implemented: state ownership or state control. Hitlers organization and government were a direct copy of Stalin’s, including the “cult of personality”.
I’ve depressed myself. Welcome to the “Brave New World”, post 1984.
What is the frequency, Richard?
h/t Dan Rather
Sorry folks, but as a teacher and a teacher of teachers I just don’t buy the ‘all teachers are Marxists meme’ a lot are left of centre, quite a few right of it, but what none of them want is control of education by any political extremes, left or right. We all know where that leads, so get a grip and using the best piece of advice I’ve ever received, ‘get over yourself!’
Robert A. Taylor says:
November 17, 2012 at 11:06 pm
…To: Gail Combs says:
November 17, 2012 at 1:42 pm
You forgot to mention that not only can business corporations spend unlimited amounts on political propaganda, but that many US corporations are owned, controlled, or greatly influenced by foreigners….
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Yes I did. Here is the info from the last time I look at that several years ago.
Industries with over 50% foreign ownership, according to Source Watch http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foreign_ownership_of_U.S._corporations
Cong.[ressman] Kolbe pointed out that 80% of American ports are already operated by companies based in foreign countries, such as the United Kingdom and China, among others.
Foreign companies buying U.S. roads, bridges
Statistics (courtesy of Bridgewater) showed in 1990, before WTO was ratified, foreign ownership of U.S. assets amounted to 33% of U.S. GDP. By 2002 this had increased to over 70% of U.S. GDP. http://www.fame.org/HTM/greg%20Pickup%201%2010%2003%20report.htm
No wonder Foreigners want a “Seat on the Board” they own most of the place!
@MonktonofOz says:
November 17, 2012 at 7:51 pm
“Had there been a Republican candidate who was seen to have more empathy with the average family / been of the people, the USA would have different president.”
I have a different take on it. 50% of the people live on the low side of the IQ bell curve. Even though the aren’t all that bright, they do understand “free stuff.” They would vote for Bozo the Clown if the Dims ran him.
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Gail Combs says:
November 17, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Remember it is perfectly acceptable for foreign entities to have paid lobbyists in Washington DC.
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Remember, the word “lobbyist” is just watered-down PC doublespeak. The proper description is influence peddlers.
pat says November 17, 2012 at 8:12 am
Carol Browner did much the same and when caught wiped out all correspondence in spite of a court order. But like Sandy Berger and John Corzine, there seems to be some sort of immunity if you belong to a certain political party.
Just goes to show the DOJ is no holder of justice …. oh, wait a minute..
Justthinkin, your rhetoric is way out of bounds and should not be allowed to stand on this blog. Go to some other site and spew such hatred.
Jeff Alberts says:
November 17, 2012 at 2:25 pm
I’m equally certain it is due to pedants.
Pamela Gray says:
November 18, 2012 at 11:30 am
????? What are you talking about?????? He pwned you and you’re asking for his removal, verify his point?? Hilarious. The mirror sometimes reflects painful images, does it not?
verifying, Of course. Laughing too hard.