I may be the least surprised person to hear that the EPA has once again violated ethics laws which always makes me wonder, whose side is the EPA on? https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-ethics-rules-industry-corruption-2639205390.html?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5 Multiple times over the past 20 years and as recently as less than 2 weeks ago, I've contacted the EPA on most pressing issues from burning rubber and plastic to blocked canals to chemical spills in residential neighborhoods and they can never do anything more than issue memos and pass the buck.
Other than for financial gain, why the fuck would you replace academic members of advisory boards with special interest industry appointees? And yet knowing how nothing is within their federal governmental jurisdiction according to their spokespeople, I don’t find it surprising in the least because clearly the EPA thinks that not only are they unanswerable to the taxpayers, they also act as if they are a law unto themselves, and in our complacency we just may have allowed that
"The EPA told the GAO that it had replaced the committee membership recommendation grids submitted by staff with in-person briefings, but provided no documentation as proof of the briefings.
Christopher Zarba, who served as director of the EPA's Science Advisory Board staff office until 2018, disputed the EPA's official account of its new process.
"This is bullshit. There was no other process. There was no review, no feedback, at least when I was there," Zarba told BuzzFeed News." But as long as we the people allow such blatant corruption it will continue. It’s as simple as that. A
nd worse, our apathy will assist in an eventual full ecological collapse because this earth is not only suffering from Global Warming, it’s suffering from an onslaught of pollution to our air, our land and our seas, much of it under the watch of the EPA. And we all know what happens when you allow the fox to guard the henhouse which is why we have rules, and what good are rules if they are ignored?
In the upcoming days I will be covering more interactions with the EPA.
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