U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Polluting America
with Unnecessary, Stifling, Unaffordable
Environmental Regulations
Based on Junk Science
Compiled by Gary Corlies
Benbrook Water Authority Vice President & Legislative Chairman
21 February 2011
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Does the EPA do Americans more harm than good?
The EPA was established to help the government respond to
environmental disasters and spread conservation awareness.
The EPA has become a bloated, over-reaching disaster of it’s own;
imposing onerous, unwarranted regulations that have blocked
affordable energy development, stifled businesses, killed jobs and
squandered billions of dollars.
Experts referenced here illustrate how this out-of-control agency is
harming America’s economy and competiveness.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Today’s EPA Mission is Environmental Activism
In their own words…
The EPA celebrates its 40th birthday.
EPA Head, Lisa Jackson, will “highlight the impact of
the EPA's efforts to “clean up the air Americans
breathe and the water they drink and the
communities they live in” as well as her agency’s
crusade to attend to “the unfinished business of the
environmental movement.”
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules at the EPA
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
(Robert L. Park, Professor and scientific skeptic)
Junk science is the creature of “scientists, many of whom have impressive
credentials, who craft arguments deliberately intended to deceive or
confuse.”
1. pathological science, wherein genuine scientists deceive themselves
2. junk science, speculative theorizing which bamboozles rather than
enlightens
3. pseudoscience information falsely claiming to have a scientific basis, which
may be dependent on supernatural explanations
4. Fraudulent science, exploiting bad science for the purposes of fraud
Today EPA research is selective, systematic junk science at best,
with many instances of pseudoscience and fraud.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
The “Voodoo science”, senator calls EPA data on
nuke dump future
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., a staunch critic of the Yucca
project, called the standard the product of "voodoo
science and arbitrary numbers." The state's other
senator, Republican John Ensign, said the standard
had no scientific basis and was "a blatant disregard
for the health of Nevadans.“
…Senator Reid gets it
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
Junk Science Is Creating Bad EPA Policy
William F. Shughart II; F. A. P.; Professor of Economics at The University of Mississippi
Now comes news that the government’s science on secondhand smoke
was second rate. On July 17, a federal judge in North Carolina ruled that the
EPA had committed numerous scientific and procedural errors in concluding
that exposure to ETS adversely affects the health of nonsmokers. Working
to a predetermined agenda, the agency selectively disregarded relevant
information, deviated from its own risk assessment guidelines after it
became clear that the evidence supporting its foregone conclusion did not
meet standard levels of statistical significance, and ignored contradictory
views of its own risk assessment experts. The EPA’s report linking ETS to
lung cancer in nonsmokers, in short, was not based on sound science, but
was rigged to push a particular politically correct point of view.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
The EPA SMOG Fraud (Steve Milloy) The EPA alleges that the more stringent
standards prevents as many as 12,000 premature deaths per year and
thousands of cases of bronchitis, asthma and nonfatal heart attacks — all for
the price of $19 billion to $90 billion per year. To make the rule seem like a nobrainer, the EPA values the proposal's health benefits at $13 billion to $100
billion per year.
The EPA points to a slew of studies to back up its proposal, but the scientific
and economic reality of the proposal is far different. There is no body of
systematically collected and scientifically analyzed data showing ambient levels
of smog in the U.S. are the primary cause of a substantial or even detectable
number of significant health effects.
EPA points to published studies it claims support its proposal, these studies
invariably involve cherry-picked data that have been statistically tortured to
produce dubious, even suspicious results — these studies tend to emanate
from EPA-funded researchers.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
EPA Junk Science on Air Pollution Deaths
(John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.)
This incest between EPA and public health academia, the medical journals,
and so-called independent research organizations like the Health Effects
Institute is unfortunate because it prevents impartial analysis of
environmental health effects research. There are too many conflicts of
financial and policy interest. This is not just a pattern for the EPA but is
symptomatic of the growth of government. The EPA and other government
agencies use taxpayer dollars to fund the work of activist
organizations. The EPA funds the American Lung Association, the Sierra
Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund, then the EPA "endures" activist
organizations' lawsuits and demands for more EPA activity. The EPA funds,
supports, and rewards research that "forces" more aggressive EPA
regulatory activities. The economic and risk analysis research funded by
the EPA, not surprisingly, usually confirms EPA action and policy. When EPA
internal or external research conflicts with policy, it is stifled.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
EPA's Peer-review Perversion …cherry-pick like-minded reviewers
( Steven Milloy and Joel Bucher)
EPA claims science demands changing allowable ozone concentrations.
But the proposed standards failed public review. Flaws in the science on
the PM 2.5 standard ran so deep that calls were made to release the
underlying data from the key epidemiological studies on which the EPA
relied: the Harvard Six Cities study and the Pope study. The studies' authors
haven't allowed independent scientists to scrutinize their work - not
surprising given the EPA's recent admission that it failed to catch a
statistical error in the Pope study that forced the agency to lower the
estimated benefits of the new fine particle standard from 20,000 to 15,000
reduced deaths annually. Questions about the studies forced the EPA to ask
the Health Effects Institute to sponsor yet another review. HEI is slated to
carry out a re-analysis of the key studies to determine their reliability
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
EPA
Junk Science Rules
ETHANOL: DIRTIER AIR, MORE POLLUTION, RUINED ENGINES — SO THE EPA
WANTS YOU TO USE MORE!
Robert Bryce at the Manhattan Institute: Senior Fellow
Ethanol is a pure scam. In July the CBO reported that corn-ethanol subsidies
cost U.S. taxpayers more than $7 billion a year. Corn-based ethanol is not
supportable on economic, environmental or logistical grounds. It increases air
pollution, water pollution, freshwater consumption, coastal pollution,
greenhouse gas emissions and food prices. We have had three decades of
subsidies, yet no decline in oil imports.
The real outrage is air quality. The EPA admitted in 2007 that increased use of
ethanol in gasoline would increase emissions of key air pollutants by as much
as 7 percent. On Wednesday they again acknowledged that increased ethanol
consumption will mean higher emissions of key pollutants.
The EPA has announced that it will raise the limit to 15% to bail
out the ethanol industry. …why is this scam allowed to continue?
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Junk Science Rules
EPA Buries Their Own Report on Global Warming
A significant internal critique of the agency's global warming position, was
suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency's Office Director Al
McGartland. Withholding Carlin's study tainted the Endangerment
proceedings by denying the public access to important agency information.
This report raises serious questions on the governments bill HR2454,
American Clean Energy & Security Act. and raises questions on the Obama
administration's Cap and Trade agenda.
Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the Energy and Commerce
Committee, invoked Carlin's report in a floor speech during the debate on
Friday. "The science is not there to back it up," Barton said. "An EPA report
that has been suppressed...raises grave doubts about the endangerment
finding. …Representative Barton gets it.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
Billions the are wasted on
junk science scams that
severely restricts domestic
energy, drives up prices, kills
American jobs and chokes the
economy.
The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to seize new power to
regulate emissions of carbon dioxide unless Congress acts to stop
them. Carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor a threat to human life or
the environment. Despite new predictions that the Earth is entering a new
cooling phase, the EPA intends to cap carbon dioxide emissions to stop
nonexistent global warming. …The agenda trumps science!
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
The EPA has no competent oversight.
The EPA seeks and relies on bias data from
activists groups to justify imposing
unnecessary regulations that are stifling and
unaffordable.
They answer only to the President and the U.S.
Congress.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
Governor Perry gets it…
Texas Takes Legal Action Against Federal Government Over EPA CO2
Mandates
2/16/2010 - AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott and
Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples today announced that the state is
taking legal action in the US Court of Appeals challenging the EPA
overreaching CO2 regulation
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
Senator Murkowski gets it…
Murkowski Floor Statement on her EPA Disapproval Resolution
Sen. Murkowski, the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy Committee
today introduced a bipartisan disapproval resolution to stop the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse
emissions
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
Senator Crapo gets it…
Disapproval of EPA's Endangerment Finding
Idaho Senator Crapo's comments on the expected vote in the Senate on a
Resolution of Disapproval of the EPA's Endangerment Finding.
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U.S. EPA Gone Rogue
Stop the EPA Shake-down
Senator Inhofe gets it…
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson's decision to
rely on information from the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change
to institute the endangerment finding is irresponsible.
“So EPA's endangerment finding rests on bad science,"
"We knew they were cooking the science to support the flawed UN IPCC
agenda," he said. "I suspect Climate-gate is only the beginning."
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Reign in the Rogue Agency
Congress must hold the EPA Accountable
• Obvious, outrageous EPA fraud
continues with impunity as if
sanctioned by the Congress…
• Congress needs a single EPA
oversight committee empowered to
judge an approve the EPA’s scientific
and statistical research.
• Void EPA regulations that can not be
substantiated by verified research.
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Reform // Replace the EPA
EPA reform will take time…
…Urgent first steps
• Repeal bad regulations immediately.
• Free business and tax-payers to invest
in the economy instead of paying for
environmental snake-oil.
• Drastically cut EPA Funding.
• Potential savings are huge, helping
both the economy and the deficit.
• What's not to like here?
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Repeal Bad Regulations
Benbrook implores Congress to link repeal of the
Water Disinfectant Byproduct Regulation and
Ethanol to the CO2 mandates.
• EPA has no evidence that this new water regulation is necessary.
• Water plants across Texas and the U.S. have spent billions on
compliance, needlessly driving up the cost of water.
• There is no verifiable research that confirms drinking water
disinfectant byproducts has caused birth defects and bladder
cancer as claimed by the EPA.
• For justification the EPA points to what they describe as “difficult
and incomplete empirical analysis of epidemiology and toxicology
studies”. …sound familiar?
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Repeal Bad Regulations
• The EPA did not account for, or quantify, other probable causes
such as diet, heredity, life-style choices or many other causes in
their incomplete analysis.
• Without quantifiable data, they cannot claim to understand and
to prescribe acceptable levels of byproducts for drinking water.
• The U.S. has successfully treated water using disinfectants for the
past 100 years.
• The number of documented cases of birth defects and bladder
cancer attributed to disinfectant byproducts in drinking water is
zero, zip, zilch, nada, none!!!
The EPA cost benefit analysis was equally skewed to support their
false theory. …sound familiar? …they just make this stuff up!
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Repeal Bad Regulations
Hold the EPA Accountable
• The new CO2 standards will be devastating to
businesses and the economy.
• The Ethanol scam is a contemptible waste.
• The Water Disinfectant Byproduct mandates have
already cost billions effecting nearly everyone who pays
for water.
• All are based on junk science and are unjustified.
• Repeal these unnecessary regulations.
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Appeal to Congress
Stop the Fraud - Reign in the EPA
1121 Mercedes Street
Benbrook, TX 76126
The Benbrook Water Authority is governed by an elected 5 member
Board of Directors that is determined not to waste our public
treasure on unjustified EPA regulations.
The Board appeals to the U.S. Congress on behalf of our 27,000
constituents (and 308 million water-drinking Americans) to repeal
the unjustified, costly EPA Disinfectant Byproduct Regulation that is
part the larger systemic EPA scientific fraud.
Dennis G. Lindgron
Gary Corlies
Rick Whitehurst
Patricia Dunkin
Robert L. Cook
President
Vice President
Secretary
Director
Director
http://www.benbrookwater.com/
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Appeal to Congress
Americans are counting on
Congress to save us from the EPA
The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
United States Senator from Texas
The Honorable John Cornyn
United States Senator from Texas
The Honorable Sam Johnson
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 3
The Honorable Jeb Hensarling
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 5
The Honorable Joe Barton
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 6
The Honorable Kay Granger
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 12
The Honorable Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 14
The Honorable Kenny Marchant
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 24
The Honorable Michael C. Burgess
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26
The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 30
The Honorable Pete Sessions
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 32
The Honorable Tom Petri
House Sub-Committee on Transportation and infrastructure Chairman
The Honorable Bob Gibbs
House Sub-Committee on Water Resource and Environment Chairman
The Honorable Andrew (Andy) Harris
House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Chairman
The Honorable John Shimkus
House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy Chairman
The Honorable Steve Womack
House Subcommittee on Energy and Water Chairman
The Honorable Rand Paul
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
The Honorable James M. Inhofe
Senate Committee on Enviromental and Public Works
The Honorable Tom Coburn
Senate Subcommittee on Investigations
The Honorable Fred Upton
Senate Committee on Energy and Commerce
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