Now she'll have more time to spend with her dog, Richard: EPA's Lisa Jackson to step down

The following two comments are caricatures of the anti-EPA position we contrarians adopt, which is that the EPA has gone too far and is dominated by anti-business zealots. We do NOT wish to go back to the good old days before environmental regulations, which is what these two comments are longing for. They were posted in the hope of drawing commenters here into backslapping agreement so WUWTers can be mocked subsequently on the Daily Kos or wherever “Harddoneby” regularly roosts.

Harddoneby says:
December 27, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I would prefer to go back to the 1960s before ‘Silent Spring’ made people scared for the environment (notice parrallels now-a-days with AGW). I have over the decades spent millions of dollars investing in mitigation of the by products (some people call it pollution) that my industrial processes had produced. In the old days, I used to be able to dispose of them the cheapest most convenient method I choose. Not any more since the government now meddles in my business and costs me a fortune. I look at overseas countries and see how their industries are not troubled by regulations on the safe disposal of by products. In fact the governments help those industries by making sure communist agitators don’t cause trouble under the disguise of looking after the environment. Sure the by products can be a little inconvenient to the local area for a short time, but the world is a big place and the environment can look after itself without the EPA interfering.
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Harddoneby says:
December 27, 2012 at 10:40 pm
Eric Worrall. Too right, and at the same time they should remove the right for people to sue God fearing republicans for problems they may (or may not more likely) have due to the pollution that is produced. I have to admit, that the fear of litigation is a powerful deterrent to just dumping the chemicals in an on site pond like I used to. But it was hard to prove that the chemicals didn’t contaminate the ground water, and the blighters made me pay just the same. I maintained that water was already contaminated and they had already had those health problems. But you know how it is, if a lawyer smells a buck in it, he’ll go after it.

I responded to the above with the following: “Clever strawmen. Nobody here will bite (I hope).” In reply: got this i

Harddoneby says:
December 28, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Roger Knight. It is simple, by giving people like the EPA any sympathy, you are helping transferring industry to easier to operate countries.

This confirms my view that he is attempting to draw WUWTers into the politically disastrous, and scientifically wrong, position of opposing the EPA 100%.

The trade off for local jobs is a little pollution, you can’t have one without the other.

Sure. I’d make that trade-off too. But “a little” isn’t what we used to have.

So by displaying your communistic sympathies in defending the EPA . . .

This is a clever, Machiavellian attempt to divert readers’ attention away from my exposure of the game he’s playing by pressing one of what he imagines to be our hot buttons.

. . . you are personally assisting in wrecking local industry. Is this what you want?

More cleverness–attempting to poison the well. But we can see through your tactic.

But will Holder filter the emails to pull out the good ones?

Chemical engineer my foot. A lot of CEs drift from their profession but none others to this dark extent of treason.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/17/epa-inspector-general-audits-agencys-use-of-secret-email-accounts/
According to Chris Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the practice was instituted by Carol Browner, former director of the Obama White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and Bill Clinton’s EPA administrator…
…“I stumbled across an obscure EPA memo admitting to the ‘alias’ accounts having been created by someone who also had ordered her hard drive and backup tapes erased (Carol Browner), and that the accounts were set on auto-delete,” Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. (RELATED: Republicans continue to press EPA’s Lisa Jackson on secret email accounts)
“That is, everything about their origin screamed abuse, and controls were supposedly instituted,” he added. “Later, EPA again promised to get its act together on the heels of a Government Accountability Office inquiry.”
“All of which tells us that systems can always be abused; it isn’t the system, but politicians naming people to positions of authority who will abuse that authority,” Horner continued.