Obama’s EPA Writes Stimulus Check to China

EPA is Funneling Stimulus Money to the Chinese Government, Destroying Jobs at Home with Oppressive New Regulations

• Obama’s EPA has been funneling money from the failed, so-called stimulus to the Chinese government, according to a recent report.
• This news capped a string of recent revelations about job-destroying policies the EPA is pursuing with no concern for the impact on jobs.
• EPA actually “tacitly encourages” activist groups to sue the U.S. government so EPA can obtain legal cover for regulatory actions. Meanwhile, the agency is preparing several new rules that will hit literally “every corner of the economy.”

BACKGROUND:

Obama’s EPA has been funneling money from the failed, so-called stimulus, which was intended to create jobs in America, to the Chinese government and other foreign groups for various environmental projects, according to a report released last week:

“China and other foreign interests have been significant beneficiaries of stimulus money through the Environmental Protection Agency, to the tune of some $27 million, since the law passed in February 2009.
“Congressional investigators with the House Energy and Commerce Committee found that the EPA engaged in practices such as giving a $718,000 grant to the China State Environment Protection Administration to help it comply with the Stockholm and Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants Convention among others.” (John Rossomando, “EPA Stimulating Environmental Regulations Abroad,” The Daily Caller, 7/7/2011)

This news capped a string of recent revelations about anti-jobs policies the EPA is pursuing with no concern for the adverse impact on jobs. EPA actually “tacitly encourages” activist groups to sue the U.S. government so EPA can obtain legal cover for regulatory actions. Meanwhile, the agency is preparing several new rules that will hit literally “every corner of the economy”:

WSJ: EPA “TRIES TO SCUTTLE OIL TRANSPORT” PROJECT THAT WOULD CREATE JOBS: “Hillary Clinton indicated early on that she was inclined to allow it and so it seemed the company would get its permit after a 90-day comment period. But the Environmental Protection Agency raised a stink and State acquiesced to a ‘supplemental’ statement, which took months to prepare. On June 6, at the end of another 90-day comment period, the EPA stamped the report ‘inadequate’ and sent State a nine-page letter with objections, which, no surprise, would require years of further study.

“You could be forgiven for thinking that this must have something to do with pipeline safety. But pipelines remain the statistically safest way to transport oil, pipeline accident rates have fallen sharply, and technology has improved reaction time to leaks and the ability to contain them.” (Editorial, “Jobs in the Pipeline: The EPA Tries to Scuttle Oil Transport from Canada’s Tar Sands,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/7/2011)
EPA RAMMING THROUGH NEW COAL RULES THAT JOB CREATORS CALL “UNREASONABLE, UNNECESSARY AND DISRUPTIVE”: “The EPA rule has generated anxiety in the coal industry partly because some of its emissions targets will take effect in January, a timetable that the companies say gives them too little time to prepare.

“A spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based Southern Co., one of the nation’s largest coal-burning utilities and a critic of the proposed version of the EPA rule, called the agency’s compliance deadlines ‘unreasonable, unnecessary and disruptive.'” (Ryan Tracy and Tennille Tracy, “EPA to Require New Pollution Cuts,” The Wall Street Journal, 7/8/2011)

AND EPA “TACITLY ENCOURAGES” ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS TO SUE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SO IT CAN GET “LEGAL COVER” FOR NEW REGULATIONS:“Indeed, several environmental groups that have received millions in EPA grants regularly file suit against that same agency. …

“The EPA even tacitly encourages such suits, going so far as to pay for and promote a ‘Citizen’s Guide’ that, among other things, explains how to sue the agency under ‘citizen suit’ provisions in environmental laws. The guide’s author — the Environmental Law Institute — has received $9.9 million in EPA grants over the past decade.

” ‘The EPA isn’t harmed by these suits,’ said Jeffrey Holmstead, who was an EPA official during the Bush administration. ‘Often the suits involve things the EPA wants to do anyway. By inviting a lawsuit and then signing a consent decree, the agency gets legal cover from political heat.'” (John Merline, “EPA Funds Green Groups That Sue the Agency to Expand,” Investor’s Business Daily, 7/6/2011)

Nonetheless, Obama’s EPA remains completely defiant in the face of criticism and is pushing ahead with its regulatory rampage. What will it take for Obama to curb his EPA’s job-destroying actions that harm economic opportunities and send taxpayer dollars to China?:

“EPA CHIEF STANDS FIRM” AS JOB-DESTROYING NEW REGULATIONS THAT WILL HIT “EVERY CORNER OF THE ECONOMY” LOOM: “In the next weeks and months, Lisa P. Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, is scheduled to establish regulations on smog, mercury, carbon dioxide, mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy.”(John M. Broder, “EPA Chief Stands Firm as Tough Rules Loom,” The New York Times, 7/6/2011)

EPA ADMITS THEY DON’T CONSIDER JOBS IMPACTS IN RULE-MAKINGS: “The Obama administration has repeatedly said job creation is a top priority, but apparently the memo seems to have missed the bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This became evident when EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus testified Thursday before an Environment and Energy subcommittee hearing that his agency does not take jobs into account when it issues new regulations. ‘We have not directly taken a look at jobs in the proposal,’ Stanislaus said, referring to a regulation that would govern industries that recycle coal ash and other fossil fuel byproducts.”(John Rossomondo, “EPA Official Says Jobs Don’t Matter,” The Daily Caller,  4/16/2011)