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EPA Asserts Executive Privilege In CA Emissions Case
Brad Eleven writes "The AP reports that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has invoked executive privilege to justify withholding information in its response to a lawsuit. The state of California is challenging the agency's decision to block their attempt to curb the emissions from new cars and trucks. In response, the EPA has delivered documents requested by the Freedom of Information Act for the discovery phase of the lawsuit — but the documents are heavily redacted. That is, the agency has revealed that it did spend many hours meeting to discuss the issue, but refuses to divulge the details or the outcomes of the meetings. Among the examples cited, 16 pages of a 43-page Powerpoint presentation are completely blank except for the page titles. An EPA spokesperson used language similar to other recent claims of executive privilege, citing 'the chilling effect that would occur if agency employees believed their frank and honest opinions and analysis expressed as part of assessing California's waiver request were to be disclosed in a broad setting.'"
In this age of climate change hysteria, if you did research that ended up suggested otherwise would you like to have it out there with your name on it? i'd rather have frank and honest EPA employee's and not be able to read their findings then being able to read a bunch of 1/2 truths that they were forced to self censor to protect their jobs and reputations
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
2. why must it always be the corporations with you people?
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You're kidding, right?
Most of the current EPA cronies were Clinton hires. The Democrats do as much damage in "Federalize Everything."
Disband the EPA, and let the States enact their own policies. It'll put to rest a lot of political cronyism.
No, you'll be ostrasized by your peers, loose your funding and end up at some community college. Climate change is about money, not the environment. How do I know? It happened to my faculty adviser, and of all damned things, about the speed of evoution. Remember. Global warming is anthropogenic or your funding is gone.
That was the same story with supergravity vs string theory... that is.. until the proponents of supergravity were vindicated when the 11th dimension was acknowledged, giving rise to M theory.
just because you're ostracized now wont mean you're ostracized forever, and when you are vindicated, your reaping is all the sweeter.
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What? the Clinton's used executive privilege on several document related to whitewater. There was no honor that this administration destroyed. He may have abused it more but your sorely mistaken if not trolling.
I propose that this kind of abuse of power based on false pretenses such as "executive power" be called 'georgewbullshit' or maybe just 'bushit'.