Time To Face Down Rogue Federal Agency
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
When a bully keeps pushing and overstepping the boundaries of appropriate action, the solution has to be to respond. Such is the case with one of the Federal Government’s biggest bullies…the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that is the response determined to be the course directed by the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) voting delegates at their annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Overreaching is the game plan EPA is constantly pursuing, adopting a “regulate now and we’ll see if you can sue us back to the parameters of what the law actually says our authority should be” approach.
Started in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, interestingly using executive authorities, the EPA has always been a heavy-handed bunch, growing their empire to 18,000 zealous thugs, exercising their pursuits under the grail of power for the environment. They also have found ways to employ state agencies to expand their command and control methods, adopting agreements which suggest that state agencies will have control of environmental matters in their respective states, but keeping things on a short chain and threatening to yank authority if there aren’t appropriate amounts of fines and punishments imposed.
Without obtaining the desired objectives of legislation, passed by elected representatives, the current Administration has let loose the hounds to accomplish the phony solution to the imagined challenge of Climate Change. EPA continues to prepare their regulatory control over the regulation of “green house gases” forcing those under their thumbs to comply to their wishes. The effect of the imposition will be higher energy costs for Americans, further harm to our economy and zippo improvements for the quality of the air or climate…both of which seem to be everywhere around the planet and not in the vacuum the so-called scientists who believe punishing U.S. citizens will achieve.
The entire scheme of the global warming hoax is to make the one country on the planet, who will knuckle under out of some sense of guilt, do just what their beloved leader and his black-booted EPA agency goons will tell them to do.
Ideally, the effort of the American Farm Bureau Federation to encourage elected leaders to stand up and take on the EPA will achieve results, bringing other put-upon interests to the rally and requiring the constraints of common sense, legislative authority and legitimate science to have some influence.
When a bully keeps pushing and overstepping the boundaries of appropriate action, the solution has to be to respond. Such is the case with one of the Federal Government’s biggest bullies…the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and that is the response determined to be the course directed by the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) voting delegates at their annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
“EPA’s regulatory reach continues to metastasize at the expense of our ability to produce food, fiber and fuel, and EPA often does not recognize the contributions that farmers and ranchers have made to reduce soil loss and produce more with less land, water, nutrients and other inputs,” said Bob Stallman, President of the AFBF. “We need more common sense and less negativity toward production agriculture in the enforcement of the nation’s existing environmental statutes.”Earlier in the 2011 AFBF annual meeting Stallman announced, that the organization was filing a federal lawsuit to halt the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay pollution regulatory plan. AFBF said that the agency overreached by setting up a plan for the entire 64,000 square-mile Chesapeake watershed, usurped state control, relied on faulty data and failed to account for agriculture’s contributions to improving water quality, and provided insufficient information and time for the public to check EPA’s actions.
Overreaching is the game plan EPA is constantly pursuing, adopting a “regulate now and we’ll see if you can sue us back to the parameters of what the law actually says our authority should be” approach.
Started in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, interestingly using executive authorities, the EPA has always been a heavy-handed bunch, growing their empire to 18,000 zealous thugs, exercising their pursuits under the grail of power for the environment. They also have found ways to employ state agencies to expand their command and control methods, adopting agreements which suggest that state agencies will have control of environmental matters in their respective states, but keeping things on a short chain and threatening to yank authority if there aren’t appropriate amounts of fines and punishments imposed.
Without obtaining the desired objectives of legislation, passed by elected representatives, the current Administration has let loose the hounds to accomplish the phony solution to the imagined challenge of Climate Change. EPA continues to prepare their regulatory control over the regulation of “green house gases” forcing those under their thumbs to comply to their wishes. The effect of the imposition will be higher energy costs for Americans, further harm to our economy and zippo improvements for the quality of the air or climate…both of which seem to be everywhere around the planet and not in the vacuum the so-called scientists who believe punishing U.S. citizens will achieve.
The entire scheme of the global warming hoax is to make the one country on the planet, who will knuckle under out of some sense of guilt, do just what their beloved leader and his black-booted EPA agency goons will tell them to do.
Ideally, the effort of the American Farm Bureau Federation to encourage elected leaders to stand up and take on the EPA will achieve results, bringing other put-upon interests to the rally and requiring the constraints of common sense, legislative authority and legitimate science to have some influence.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 1/12/2011 7:01 AM 
Categories: Government
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency American Farm Bureau Federation Over Regulation Government Out of Co
Categories: Government
Tags: Environmental Protection Agency American Farm Bureau Federation Over Regulation Government Out of Co
Doug,
Once again you and I disagree. There may be a failure to understand on both sides of the issue. The EPA is victim to the American electoral process. One administration obliterates advancements in environmental protection to cut their corporate buddies a deal, the next administration restores the EPA's funding and original goals. This puts the EPA in a state of constant catch-up.
You didn't cite exactly what it is the EPA is requiring of farmers in the Chesapeake area that is so unfair. Is it an abandonment of the use of a particular pesticide? Is there a proffered alternative? Without that specificity, your blog is more like an unfocused rant.
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