EPA

How Many EPA Employees are “Essential”?
How Many EPA Employees are “Essential”?
How Many EPA Employees are “Essential”?
When the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt was tasked with looking to eliminate 25% of the 15,000 employees at the agency, many on the left had heart attacks. Well I just found an article by Reuters in 2013 that when our federal government was facing a shutdown in 2013 the EPA only considered less than 7% of their employees essential...
EPA Plowing and Mini Mountain Ranges
EPA Plowing and Mini Mountain Ranges
EPA Plowing and Mini Mountain Ranges
We keep talking about the never ending expansion of our Federal government and still it appears that the majority of Americans still crave for more government control because they refuse to vote it out.  Now the EPA is attempting to call the furrows made by farmers plowing their land “mini mountain ranges” and thus are under the control of the Federal government via the EPA...
Finally a Reasoned Editorial on Flint
Finally a Reasoned Editorial on Flint
Finally a Reasoned Editorial on Flint
I have been telling my listeners for months now that we should keep our powder dry on where to lay blame in the Flint water crises. As I say on air let us first make sure the people of Flint’s water is safe to drink then let us take a long detailed investigation at what occurred and the people who are responsible...
Water Testing Nationwide
Water Testing Nationwide
Water Testing Nationwide
In researching this Flint water issue I came across an article in Mlive.com which is reporting that water testing for lead and copper in municipal drinking water is a nationwide problem, not only a problem in Flint. Researchers at Virginia Tech University believe the 1991 EPA rule that regulates how water utilities test for lead needs to be updated because in their current state they do not produc
Fracking Does Not Harm Drinking Water
Fracking Does Not Harm Drinking Water
Fracking Does Not Harm Drinking Water
Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality say’s that companies in Michigan have been using it to facilitate oil and gas production for about 50 years. Approximately 12,000 wells have been fractured in that time, and fracturing has never jeopardized the environment or public health. ...