RIO DE JANEIRO -- Many at the Rio+20 sustainable development conference here have openly been wondering why President Obama decided to skip the event. An answer came today from an unlikely source, climate change skeptic Sen. James Inhofe. The Oklahoma Republican's video appearance at the U.N. summit was a kind of long-distance taunt and an attack on Obama. Inhofe took issue with the United Nations' "radical global warming agenda" in the clip and dismissed Obama's absence as election-year politics. To Inhofe, it's obvious why Obama chose not to appear: The president is painting himself as pro-energy production to win swing states in this fall's election, so he wants to steer clear of any impression that he's in line with any policies that would address climate change head on.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate will have the opportunity to put a stop to one of the most expensive Environmental Protection Agency rules in history: the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule. This is the centerpiece of President Obama's war on coal.

Called MATS, or Utility MACT, this rule will destroy jobs and cause energy prices to skyrocket. By voting for my resolution, SJR 37, members of the Senate can prevent the Obama EPA from inflicting so much economic pain on American families.

How do we know that Utility MACT is designed to kill coal? Just ask EPA Region One Administrator Curt Spalding, who was seen on video admitting that because of the EPA's regulatory barrage, "If you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem." He went on to say that EPA's decision to kill coal was "painful every step of the way," because "if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal."

Well, those communities that depend on coal are feeling that pain, and that's why bipartisan momentum is growing for my resolution. West Virginia's Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, recently wrote to West Virginia Sens. Joe Manchin and Jay Rockefeller urging them to vote for SJR 37, saying EPA's rules have "coalesced to create an unprecedented attack on West Virginia's coal industry." West Virginia's Lt. Gov. Jeffrey Kessler echoed this concern, saying that EPA is destroying the state's "most valuable state natural resource and industry."

Labor, too, has come out to stop the job-killing over-regulation. Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers, one of the biggest labor unions in the country, recently sent a letter to several senators asking them to support my resolution because of "the threat that the EPA MATS rule poses to United Mine Workers Association members' jobs, the economies of coal field communities, and the future direction of our national energy policy." In addition, we've also secured the support of the Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Farm Bureau and the National Association of Manufacturers, all of which represent major groups who are apparently not "doing fine" in the face of EPA's regulations.

Let me be clear that this campaign to destroy coal is not about public health. If it were, Democrats would not have voted against my Clear Skies bill back in 2005, a bill that would have achieved a reduction in mercury emissions of 70% by 2018. In fact, at that time, then-Sen. Obama served with me on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. As he explained, "I voted against the Clear Skies bill. In fact, I was the deciding vote."

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators and Doctors John Barrasso, M.D. (R-WY), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Rand Paul, M.D. (R-KY) and John Boozman, O.D. (R-AR) wrote President Obama outlining the negative health impacts of high unemployment. In their letter, the Senators and Doctors call on President Obama to stop pushing expensive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, like Utility MACT, that put Americans out of work and into the doctor’s office. They also call on federal agencies to include negative health impacts of unemployment into the cost/benefit analysis of regulations.

As we look ahead to the vote on Senator Inhofe's resolution on EPA's Utility MACT rule, we can all agree that everyone shares a commitment to improving air quality - but it should be done in a way that does not harm jobs and the economy, or cause electricity prices to skyrocket on every American. One look at this video and it's clear that the effort behind Utility MACT is not about public health - if it were, then-Senator Obama and the Democrats would have voted for a 70% reduction in mercury when Senator Inhofe's Clear Skies bill came up in 2005. Had they supported Clear Skies, we would already have achieved substantial mercury reductions - instead, they rejected these health benefits in favor of promoting their radical global warming agenda.

What's the difference between Clear Skies and Utility MACT? Simple: Clear Skies would have reduced emissions dramatically - by 70% - but it would have done so without threatening to kill coal and the millions of jobs that coal sustains. On the other hand, Utility MACT is specifically designed to kill coal - it makes no effort whatsoever to balance environmental protection and economic growth.

National Journal: GOP's New Normal

Thursday June 14, 2012

Once cast aside even by his own party for being Washington's loudest climate-change denier, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., is now the driving force behind GOP attacks on President Obama's energy and environment agenda.

"Even the Republican Party was afraid to invite Inhofe to speak on global warming and environmental issues because they considered him outside of the mainstream," said Marc Morano, who was Inhofe's communications director and speechwriter from 2006 to 2009. "Now he is the new normal. He is the new mainstream."

The positions of Inhofe haven't changed. Republicans have just moved closer to Inhofe.

Today, Tuesday, June 12 at noon, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, will speak on the Senate floor about the growing momentum to stop the Obama-Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) war on coal, which has been so great that Senators Alexander and Pryor have found it necessary to introduce a cover vote for Senators who find themselves in a tough spot. Will members of the US Senate stand with their constituents and vote to end President Obama’s war on coal or will they hide behind a cover bill and allow President Obama to destroy their constituents’ jobs?

While Senator Inhofe’s resolution requires EPA to go back to the drawing board to craft a rule in which utilities can actually comply, the measure that Senators Alexander and Pryor are offering would keep Utility MACT in place but delay the rule for six years.

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National Journal

EPA Official Felled by ‘Crucify' Comment Dodges House Hearing, Meets at Sierra Club

By Amy Harder

Updated: June 7, 2012 | 1:52 p.m. 

Link to Story 

It's not clear why Al Armendariz, recently removed from a top post at the Environmental Protection Agency for saying that the government should "crucify" bad actors in the energy industry, abruptly canceled plans to testify before a House panel on Wednesday.

But it is clear that he was in Washington that day and met with someone-at the Sierra Club, the nation's largest environmental organization.

On Wednesday afternoon, when a reporter visited the Sierra Club's Washington headquarters just a few blocks from Capitol Hill, Armendariz's name was written on the sign-in sheet as having been the last person to visit the office. The visit apparently came only a few hours after Armendariz had infuriated Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee when he canceled his scheduled testimony on EPA enforcement issues without offering a reason.

 

Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune toldNational Journal on Wednesday in an interview that he hadn't met with Armendariz but that he knew the former regional administrator at EPA was going to be in town.

"I knew we were going to be talking to him. I personally haven't, but he's been a long-time champion for public-health protections," Brune said. "We expect him to have a long career in public health, so we're happy to talk with him." Brune said he didn't know that Armendariz had canceled his planned appearance before the Energy and Commerce Energy and Power Subcommittee.

A lawyer representing Armendariz, Danny Onorato, did not respond to a request for comment. EPA spokesman Brendan Gilfillan said that because the agency no longer employs Armendariz, EPA officials "did not advise him on whether or not to testify." The Sierra Club also didn't offer information about who there met with Armendariz.

Republican leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to Onorato and EPA on Wednesday, asking why Armendariz canceled and requesting all communications between Armendariz and the agency about his invitation to testify.

 

"Why, several weeks after he had agreed to testify, did he retain counsel and withdraw?" Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said at the hearing on Wednesday, which went on without Armendariz. "The EPA did not make a witness available to appear alongside Dr. Armendariz today. Did the Obama administration urge him not to appear? ... Congress and the American people deserve answers about this administration's policies and practices, and we intend to get them."

Armendariz resigned as EPA's regional administrator for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico on April 30 after an uproar over his comment that EPA's "general philosophy" with its enforcement policy should be to "crucify" oil and natural-gas companies,

 

The comments were made in 2010 but only became public this spring when aides to Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., discovered them in a YouTube video. After Inhofe turned the video into a national controversy over EPA's enforcement strategy, it took less than a week-and an off-putting comment by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson-for Armendariz to resign.

Armendariz's visit to the Sierra Club could be particularly galling to House Energy and Commerce Republicans, who just last week released a statement blasting the organization for what they purport is a "none of the above" energy campaign.

 

The committee cited a Wall Street Journal editorial from last week that lambasted the Sierra Club for its "Beyond Natural Gas" campaign to oppose further reliance on natural gas, which has traditionally been seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and oil. The group's campaign, first reported in National Journal, criticizes natural gas as "dirty, dangerous, and run amok," according to a recently launched website for the campaign.

The House committee also cited examples of the Sierra Club's opposition to all types of energy, including renewable solar, wind, and nuclear power.

Brune dismissed the Republicans' attack as lacking credibility and said his group supports the vast majority of clean-energy power, including helping 160,000 solar installations get up and running around the country.

"I'll answer to just be polite," Brune said. "It's a clever line. It's more political theater than anything else."

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E&E News

Inhofe releases video ahead of hearing to highlight what he calls EPA's anti-fossil-fuels culture

Jean Chemnick, E&E reporter

Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Link to Article

The Senate's top critic of U.S. EPA regulation has compiled a video montage of the agency's regional administrators making statements that, in his opinion, show them "longing to impose a 'Green Way of Life Act' on Americans" through regulation.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) released his video last night ahead of House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, at which former EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was due to field questions about his now-famous comments comparing EPA enforcement of hydraulic fracturing rules to Roman Empire intimidation tactics -- until pulling out of the hearing last night (see related story).

Inhofe played a key role in stoking the "crucify" controversy, which lead to Armendariz's resignation in April.

In the video, Inhofe seeks to demonstrate that Armendariz's hostility to fossil fuel development was part of a larger culture at EPA. He points again to comments made by EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding at a Yale University forum in March, at which Spalding discussed the effect of EPA's proposed natural gas-based standard for power plant greenhouse gas emissions and the effect it might have on coal mining communities.

Spalding said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was forced to set the proposed standard in order "to do what the law and policy suggested."

"And it's painful," said Spalding of that decision. "It's painful every step of the way."

Inhofe first pointed to Spalding's comments as part of a 35-minute floor statement Monday night in which he discussed EPA's regulatory regime and his own efforts to stop it. He said Spalding's comments showed that EPA "consciously and deliberately made a choice to wage war on coal."

Inhofe has not called for Spalding's resignation.

Last night's video featured footage of several regional administrators, played over a background of emotive instrumental music and interspersed with clips from 2008 in which then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said that under his administration, building new coal power plants without greenhouse gas reduction capabilities would "bankrupt" a utility.

Jared Blumenfeld, the regional administrator with jurisdiction over California, is shown saying that EPA and the Energy Department had been tasked with coming up with "transition pathways away from a fossil fuel economy," in part as a response to climate change.

He also appears discussing DOE's decision to grant a loan guarantee to Solyndra, the solar firm that went bankrupt last year.

Judith Enck of EPA's Region 2 office in New York declares herself to be a politically incorrect Prius driver who thinks that individual choices are not enough to rein in emissions.

"Fundamentally, we need the large emitters -- which are power plants, manufacturing, the transportation sector -- to make a really substantial shift away from fossil fuels," she said.

Click here to view the video.

 

 

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 Inhofe Responds to Armendariz Bailing From House Hearing

New Inhofe Video: Video Shines Light on Obama-EPA Green "Way of Life" Agenda http://youtu.be/LQ6NsH2Qros

NOTE: Democratic Aide Says Inhofe Video Reason Armendariz Bailed on Hearing: Tuesday's decision came the same day that Armendariz's nemesis Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) escalated his attack on EPA by releasing a video featuring statements by President Barack Obama and three of the agency's current regional chiefs, along with Armendariz. The statements in the video, about energy and EPA regulations, are signs of Obama's "war on oil and natural gas," Inhofe's office said.The video was released "in preparation for" Armendariz's testimony, Inhofe's office wrote.One of the administrators showcased on Tuesday, Curt Spalding in EPA's New England office, was also the subject of a video that Inhofe's office had released Monday, in which Spalding talked about the problem the agency's greenhouse gas rule would pose for coal country.Neither of this week's videos had the incendiary power of the original one that Inhofe's released in April, which prompted Armendariz's resignation a few days later. But they were probably the reason Armendariz canceled, a Democratic aide said Tuesday night. "If I'm Al, I look at this and say ... ‘I was going to be a sacrificial lamb so we could move on,'" the aide said. But now, "‘It's obvious that this is larger than me -  that this is a witch hunt to go after any EPA official.'" "The point is that if he showed up, yes it would be a blood bath," but it would be worth it if Armendariz then was allowed to leave the controversy behind him, the aide said. The aide added that Inhofe "made a mistake" by releasing the new videos just before the hearing.

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Armendariz bails on hearing as Inhofe escalates assault on EPA

By Erica Martinson and Darren Goode

6/5/12 9:11 PM EDT

The former EPA regional chief who used the word "crucify" to explain his enforcement philosophy won't be in the House to explain his words Wednesday.

An attorney for Al Armendariz called the committee at about 4 p.m. Tuesday to cancel Armendariz's scheduled appearance at an Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, subpanel Chairman Ed Whitfield told POLITICO that evening.

The former Region 6 administrator's attorney "simply said that he would not be attending," said Whitfield, who said the hearing will go on without him. "And we're going to talk a lot about him and we're going to decide what, if anything, we're going to do a little bit later," the Kentucky Republican added.

Tuesday's decision came the same day that Armendariz's nemesis Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) escalated his attack on EPA by releasing a video featuring statements by President Barack Obama and three of the agency's current regional chiefs, along with Armendariz. The statements in the video, about energy and EPA regulations, are signs of Obama's "war on oil and natural gas," Inhofe's office said.

The video was released "in preparation for" Armendariz's testimony, Inhofe's office wrote.

One of the administrators showcased on Tuesday, Curt Spalding in EPA's New England office, was also the subject of a video that Inhofe's office had released Monday, in which Spalding talked about the problem the agency's greenhouse gas rule would pose for coal country.

Neither of this week's videos had the incendiary power of the original one that Inhofe's released in April, which prompted Armendariz's resignation a few days later. But they were probably the reason Armendariz canceled, a Democratic aide said Tuesday night.

"If I'm Al, I look at this and say ... ‘I was going to be a sacrificial lamb so we could move on,'" the aide said. But now, "‘It's obvious that this is larger than me -  that this is a witch hunt to go after any EPA official.'"

"The point is that if he showed up, yes it would be a blood bath," but it would be worth it if Armendariz then was allowed to leave the controversy behind him, the aide said.

The aide added that Inhofe "made a mistake" by releasing the new videos just before the hearing.

Armendariz's attorney, Danny Onorato of the D.C.-based firm Schertler & Onorato, declined to comment late Tuesday. An EPA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Whitfield and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) issued a joint statement saying they are "extremely disappointed" that Armendariz will not appear.

"Tomorrow's hearing will continue without Armendariz, and we expect compelling testimony from the other witnesses describing concerns with EPA's aggressive enforcement and regulatory actions," they said.

A source close to the administration said Armendariz did not notify EPA of his plans to cancel his testimony.

Darren Samuelsohn contributed to this report.

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Video Shines Light on Obama-EPA Green "Way of Life" Agenda

Billions of Dollars for Green Energy, "Crucify" Oil and Gas, "Painful Every Step of the Way"

 In preparation for Obama-EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz's testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released his latest video showcasing a number of Obama EPA Regional Administrators longing to impose a green "way of life act" on Americans through the regulatory regime of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Video Shines Light on Obama-EPA Green "Way of Life" Agenda

In their own words, these regional administrators dream of pouring billions of dollars into green energy firms like Solyndra, crucifying American energy producers, and forcing a regulatory agenda to kill coal that will be "painful every step of the way."

Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal perhaps put it best when she wrote that Armendariz was "a perfect general for Mr. Obama's war against natural gas" and "on the front lines" of his efforts to end fossil fuels and affordable energy.  But it's not just Armendariz: the purpose of this video is to get to know President Obama's "green generals" - the regional administrators - who are going into battle for the Obama-EPA, working hard to force a green "way of life act" in regions across the United States - all while President Obama tries to distance himself as much as possible from his administration's agenda which is "painful every step of the way" as the election approaches.

Our video begins with President Obama's campaign stop in the heart of oil and gas country, as he tries to take credit for the recent oil and gas boom, pretending to be for an "all-of-the-above" energy approach:

President Obama: "Yesterday I visited Nevada and New Mexico to talk about what we are calling an ‘all of the above' energy strategy. It's a strategy that will keep us on track to further reduce our dependence on foreign oil, put more people back to work, and ultimately help to curb this spike in gas prices that we are seeing year after year after year. So today I've come to Cushing, an oil town. Because producing more oil and gas here at home has been and will continue to be a critical part of an all of the above energy strategy."

Yet not long after President Obama visited Oklahoma, Senator Inhofe put the spotlight on a video of former Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that EPA's "general philosophy" is to "crucify" and "make examples" of oil and gas companies:

Former EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz: "But as I said, oil and gas is an enforcement priority, it's one of seven, so we are going to spend a fair amount of time looking at oil and gas production. And I gave, I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting but I'll go ahead and tell you what I said. It was kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years."

Armendariz is not the only EPA Regional Administrator to tell us the truth about the Obama-EPA's war on American fossil fuel development. As Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld explains:

EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld: "What EPA and primarily the Department of Energy have been tasked to do at the agency level is really come out with transition pathways away from a fossil fuel economy, both for the peak oil reason and because of climate change, and because of all the other issues related to oil itself."

While Armendariz and Blumenfeld revealed the Obama-EPA's war on oil and natural gas, EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding let the cat out of the bag admitting that the agency consciously and deliberately made the decision to wage a war on coal.  EPA's coal regulations, he said, that will devastate coal communities across America, will be "painful every step of the way":

EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding: "But know right now, we are, we are struggling. We are struggling because we are trying to do our jobs. Lisa Jackson has put forth a very powerful message to the country. Just two days ago, the decision on greenhouse gas performance standard and saying basically gas plants are the performance standard which means if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem. That was a huge decision. You can't imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can't do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it's painful. It's painful every step of the way."

And if those comments sound familiar it's because that's exactly what then candidate Obama said while running for President in 2008, when he wasn't so afraid to state his true intensions:

President Obama: "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant they can, its just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, and other alternative energy approaches."

While on one front, the Obama-EPA is busy crucifying American energy producers, a key part of this war on fossil fuels is, of course, to pour billions into green energy firms - and Obama's regional administrators have not been afraid to tout this agenda:

EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld:

Interviewer: Solyndra, the company in Freemont also, is getting a pretty big loan guarantee from the federal government and I guess that's causing other investors to be interested in them. What are they doing that's different and how did they get so far out in front that they get a loan guarantee of that size and they get a presidential visit?

Blumenfeld: "So Belva, a lot of people wondered where did all these billions of dollars for the Reinvestment Act, the stimulus package go, and a lot of it went to the Department of Energy and EPA, to promote clean technologies and bring people back to work and the Department of Energy did competitive bids we were just talking about the batteries for Tesla, there were U.S. companies that won that bid in Massachusetts. Here in California there's new technologies that do a number of things, they make solar panels more efficient so they get the process of converting sunlight into electricity better."

This same Solyndra that Administrator Blumenfeld said will "bring people back to work" and that President Obama said would lead us to a "brighter and more prosperous future" is famously bankrupt and an utter failure, yet EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck still maintains that the Obama-EPA is a "mean, green, job creation machine."

EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck:  "So I think to quote one of my colleagues at EPA, EPA is a "mean green job creation machine" and is actually helping create local jobs where we need them most."

EPA may be "mean" but with air rules that will destroy 1.6 million American jobs and with greenhouse gas regulations that will cost $300 to $400 billion a year, killing jobs in all sectors of the economy, EPA is not exactly a "job creating machine." 

For all this economic pain, how much will a green "way of life" actually improve the environment?  Sure, it helps to live in a city and drive a Prius, but at the end of the day, Administrator Enck admits, this green agenda will have little overall effect:

EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck:  "If I was politically correct, which I'm not, I would say that we all have a role to play as individuals, I do believe that, you know, and it's individuals using the force of the marketplace we can change corporate behavior, I don't think that really works. I think there are things we can do in terms of making smart consumer choices, but fundamentally we need the large emitters which is power plants, manufacturing, and the transportation sector to make a really substantial shift away from fossil fuels. You know, I drive a Prius, a hybrid car, that doesn't make a huge dent to be honest. I take mass transit most days of the week, that helps. You know, living in a city helps, but we're still pumping a whole lot of carbon into the environment even when we recycle and we compost and we shop at a food co-op and we use, you know, returnable packaging.  We've got a long way to go when you look at the numbers. I don't think individual change is going to be enough, I think individual change can make a huge difference but I don't think it's going to change the course on the climate equation."

But of all President Obama's green generals, former EPA Administrator Al Armendariz says it best. After proclaiming that EPA is out to "crucify" American oil and gas development, he laments that he does not have a "Way of Life Act" that he can enforce in the same way he can enforce the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act; but even so, he says, EPA isn't exactly "toothless":

Former EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz: "And so one of the really nice times of mine, one of the really special moments of being a regional administrator is about two weeks ago I was in Washington D.C. and I got the head of our enforcement group, her name is Cynthia Giles, and she is the director for all of EPA's enforcement activities and I got her in the room with some of her top staff and I showed her Gasland and that was something that was one of the really neat moments of me being a regional administrator to get her to sit down and watch that film. She is actually going to be down tomorrow. And we're actually as a staff going be taking her around to places like Dish and out in Wise County to show her what some of the communities that live in the areas where there is a lot of oil and gas production have to deal with. As I explained to Cynthia, I don't have a Way of Life Act that I can enforce. I've got a Clean Air Act, I've got a  Clean Water Act , Safe Drinking Water Act, and they all have certain rules, but I see what's happening in places like Dish and places really throughout the country when the voice of the people is, their way of life is being changed because of truck traffic, because of noise, because of water use, because of waste pits so there is a lot of activity going on; and a lot of those pieces by themselves might be legal. It's not illegal to have a whole lot of truck traffic on the road; it's not illegal to have a [inaudible] that might be a little bit noisy. And so you can go and you can see that a lot of what's happening might actually be very consistent with the law but if you pool all that together what you find is that there are communities, whether it's here in Texas or anywhere in the country, I know Mayor Tillman's been visiting a lot back east; their way of life has been radically changed and unfortunately I don't have a Way of Life Act I can enforce but at the same time EPA isn't toothless and we do have certain things that we can enforce with the Clean Air Act , the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and that's one of the reasons why Cynthia is going to be here tomorrow, she's gonna go around and take a look at some of the oil and gas facilities in the area."

President Obama claims to be for an "all of the above" approach to energy as he hits the campaign trail, yet these videos show us the truth: the Obama-EPA is more set on a green "way of life" that is "painful. Painful every step of the way." 

 

Full videos and dates can be found at:

 

Former EPA Regional Administrator AL Armendariz (Region 6)

Video From YouTube davidmcfatridge, http://www.youtube.com/user/davidmcfatridge?feature=watch

May, 2010

 

EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld (Region 9)

Video from YouTube Channel momellady http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdBVaE9d4SA&feature=channel&list=UL

March 2010

 

EPA Regional Administrator Curt Spalding (Region 1)

Video from YouTube Channel bpmcamp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvS0DpI3SAo

March 30, 2012

 

EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld (Region 9)

Video from YouTube Channel KQEDondemand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0SwCsaBO_Y

May 28, 2010

 

EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck (Region 2)

Video from YouTube Channel GoodJobsGreenJobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJrYYYq3fI

April 10, 2012

 

EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck (Region 2)

Video From YouTube Channel IrishEnvironmental

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjk-_C3sbls

June 30, 2011

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