What’s Up With the Environmental Protection Agency?
I remember back when I was a little kid hearing Rod Roddy mentioning something about California Emissions when he was gushing about A NEW CAR!!! on The Price is Right. I was living up in rural Canada where people where still tearing the catalytic converters off of their pickup trucks and I was mystified by the importance of these things. California is a big state with a huge economy and its progressive legislation usually reaches beyond its own borders.
The EPA recently refused to allow California to enact new laws regulating CO2 emissions from automobiles. The most recent news related to the fight between the agency charged with protecting the environment and the state of California involves EPA infighting. The word is that staff felt compelled to tell the EPA Administrator that the decision will likely be reversed by a federal judge.
I knew before I even looked it up that this administrator had been given his job by the GWB administration. I was surprised to see that he was a 27 year veteran of the EPA. Before that he worked as the Director of Operations at Hazelton Laboratories Corporation, a lab that has more recently been accused of rampant primate abuse. I don’t know if they were smashing monkey heads under his watch.
