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White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail

Posted by timothy on from the that's-one-way-not-to-have-seen-the-rules dept.

epfreed writes "The White House lost a case in the Supreme Court about the need for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. So the EPA made new rule. And now the NYTimes reports that the White House did not want to get these new rules from the EPA about greenhouse gases. So they did not open the email."

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  1. Wait a sec by DnemoniX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IANAL but doesn't this amount to the whole ignorance of a law isn't a defense kind of thing? If an individual or a company violates EPA standards and they get caught they get spanked with fines and such. So by their rational if the rest of us don't know about the new rules we get off the hook too right? Works for me!

  2. Why use email? by adrianbaugh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a nuts use of email. For something this important you'd expect the documents to be sent by courier or registered post, signature on delivery etc. That way, you can prove they've received it and if they've chosen not to read it it's their bad. Anyway, why should the White House need to see this? The court has decided the EPA has the authority to introduce the rule and it's then up to the judiciary to enforce it. The legislature is surely out of the loop by this point.

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  3. Re:I wouldn't open it either. by antibryce · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That was my thought as well. I'm half-tempted to start forging emails from the DEA to the White House laying out new rules to end the war on drugs, just to see if it gets anything accomplished.

  4. Does all this stuff get forgiven after election? by jd.schmidt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does anyone know? Does there have to be some kind of catch all pardon from the President or something at the end of his term? (I hearby pardon all members of the Whitehouse staff of all crimes) That thing about firing Federal Attorney's who wouldn't procecute opponents of the White House during elections seems like something that shouldn't be just dropped.

  5. Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know by cez · · Score: 5, Interesting
    He's not the only one with their head in their ass, errr...sand:


    The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; they were based on the assumption that gasoline would range from $2.26 per gallon in 2016 to $2.51 per gallon in 2030, and set a maximum average standard of 35 miles per gallon in 2020.

    ...did someone misplace a decimal?

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