The Heartland Institute has collected more than 15,000 signatures on a petition demanding Congress rein in a “rogue” Environmental Protection Agency. Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and The Heartland Institute will present the petitions to Congress at a public event in the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, DC on Tuesday, November 27 at 11 a.m.
WHAT: “Rein in EPA” Petition Presentation and Press Conference
WHEN: Tuesday, November 27, 11 a.m. EST
WHERE: Capitol Visitors Center, SVC 215, Washington, DC
WHO: Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and The Heartland Institute
MEDIA: Open to the public and all press. Must register online.
CONTACT: Jim Lakely, director of communications, The Heartland Institute, jlakely@heartland.org 312/731-9364; John Nothdurft, director of government relations, The Heartland Institute, jnothdurft@heartland.org, 662/801-2707.
PETITION: Click here for a PDF copy; click here for the Web page
EPA was created in 1970 to protect the air, land, and waterways of the U.S. from harmful pollution. Thanks in part to the agency’s efforts, Americans today enjoy a vastly cleaner environment – the healthiest in the industrialized world. Yet over the years, EPA has become a rogue agency grasping for ever-more illegitimate power that does little or nothing to protect the environment.
Today’s EPA spends billions of dollars (approximately $9 billion in 2012) imposing senseless regulations. Compliance with its unnecessary rules cost hundreds of billions of dollars more. Today’s EPA bureaucrats spend their time and our money imposing regulations that destroy jobs, cut off America’s vast energy resources from exploration, harm our economy, and suppress freedom and property rights.
According to Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, “The toll our EPA is taking on the country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work at a time when millions of people are unemployed and our reliance on foreign sources of energy threatens to compromise the nation’s security. More than 15,000 Americans have signed a petition demanding Congress rein in this rogue agency.”
According to Dr. Jay Lehr, science director of The Heartland Institute and a leading authority on water pollution and environmental protection, “EPA’s budget could safely be cut by 80 percent or more without endangering the environment or human health. Most of what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies, many of which didn’t exist or had much less expertise back in 1970, when EPA was created.”
The petitions ask Congress to repeal EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide in the name of “global warming” and demand cost-benefit analysis be applied to all environmental regulations. It also insists EPA reform its politicized and unreliable scientific research program and return to sound science and common sense.
See a copy of Heartland’s EPA petition here.
The Heartland Institute is a 28-year-old national nonprofit organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information, visit our Web site or call 312/377-4000.
Sci-Fi and technology writer Jerry Pournelle has an Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
I read the petition and agreed with several points, but certainly can’t agree with “sea ice in the Arctic is rebounding.” May be a minor point, but I’m an old-fashioned dude who won’t sign something unless I fully believe in all that is written. I hope the effort leads to some constructive changes…
I’ll only go along with this if Heartland do a segment entitled ‘Rein in the U.S. military’.
Tshane3000 says:
November 26, 2012 at 9:46 am
I won’t paste the rant from above, but have you stopped to think whether this post would have been allowed on a warmist run site?
Steve T
Could be that that is a function of the top commander in the executive branch, but I could be mistaken …
Say, were you pro-O in the last national?
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Could it be that these screeds are being out-sourced? “Doing the jobs that … won’t do anymore?”
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SamG says:
November 27, 2012 at 3:58 am
“I’ll only go along with this if Heartland do a segment entitled ‘Rein in the U.S. military’.”
It is our military strength along with our free enterprise system and relative transparency, which give our currency its strength since it is backed by nothing else and we are in debt as badly as Greece and still heading south. To “rein in the military” will also rein in lots of jobs not to mention, make our existence much more dangerous. Not to say that some improvement in spending efficiencies could not be had as to how we spend our military dollars and whom we defend.
J Williams says:
Why not?
Tshane3000: November 26, 2012 at 9:46 am
says: “…The supposed free market simply allows billionaires and others with special access to government leaders the ability to craft laws solely in their own interest. We do not live in a free society — we live in a society for the rich, of the rich and by the rich. …”
Tshane. Some of what you say may even be true.
But none of it shows why you think the EPA is your friend or how it will help you.