The Clean Air Act: EPA's regulation of the Law

[dabrockster]

Interesting article about the feud between Texas and EPA. Is the EPA overstepping their regulation powers and trying to change the law in a clever way?? This article seems to paint that portrait..

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...r-grab/?page=1

[wally]

This will be a very interesting drama to watch unfold. Most State Environmental Agencies are partly funded by federal grant money. In some cases, when the state is in a budget crunch or when the state doesn’t see the need for additional funding, the environmental agency can be SIGNIFICANTLY funded by Federal Grants (which EPA administers of course).

As such funding is the typical handle that EPA has to coerce state agencies conform to whatever the EPA’s latest push is. EPA will threaten to cut off funding and Environmental Agency employees will go into survival mode trying to find a way to implement the latest EPA push. This has (in a red state like Texas and Utah), usually been tempered by local political opposition to the EPA.

I really don’t see the EPA Region 6 coming away from this effort without a bloody nose, black eye and tail between its legs, but if on the off-chance EPA is successful you can expect a chaotic and haphazard permitting process that is only peripherally based on solid science.

[Copelius]

Not sure where else to put this, but it caught my interest.

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