A science denier from the Bush administration pisses off Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA). As Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government reform, Waxman had to threaten to physically throw out a belligerent Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to get him to follow proper procedure during the questioning.
Rather than respond directly to Waxman’s questions, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson essentially repeated robotically, “I often have conversations with the President and those in the executive branch on a routine basis on a wide range of topics.” (The only environment now protected by the EPA is the ground that members of the executive branch stand on…effers.)
Johnson’s on the hot seat not protecting public health and the environment that he’s supposed to be a steward of. He rejected independent scientific review recommendations for ones that made life easier for polluters.
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It couldn’t have happened to a bigger idjit (and former car thief). And the fact that John Boehner’s sensibilities are offended by Waxman’s conduct is just laughable. I wonder if Rep. Boehner remembers when Rep. Sensenbrenner was the chairman of the House Judiciary committee and pulled every DIRTY trick in the book to prevent Democrats from engaging in some actual oversight, including turning off the lights AND the mics! Cry me a freakin’ river, Boehner. You and the horse you rode in on.
EPA Wood Stove testing is a hoax . Independent research proves testing is based on a non scientific formula, the emissions are chosen to ease certification and the industry owns the labs and certifies their own stoves..
The real issue is that such a hoax has caused grave health issues, sufferring, asthma, cancer and as Health canada states early avoidable death. With dioxin in EPA stoves, the people who tested Tasers, the 400% higher emissions in EPA stoves is a crime towards humanity. EPA smoke stoves cause irreversable environmental destruction. EPA has given the Stove industry , HEARTH and HPBAC the license to pollute. The stoves are a light filtered cigarette, all cosmetic and with marketing tatics to all , equally deceiving as an accepted myth, similar to Moris Cigarette Ads in 1980’s and recent myths established by Enron.
Manufacturers are using tax payers dollars, registered as Environmentalists Charities, are allowed to be exempt from atmospheric standards , stoves have one year life span in statements in EPA Registered Federal documents.
Self Certified by the manufacturers, no emisssions reduced outside labs, and all registered as 100% tax free charities.
EPA politics at its Best! Integrity in Washington with 1978 standards these stove air thieves must be halted!
As a citizen and a cancer prevention research advocate, we welcome awareness and the need to promote facts in the message about EPA stoves.
Sofia, thanks for your post. The health interests of consumers and citizens have clearly been cut from the equation here.