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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Sessions dismantles EPA chief for 'stunning' ignorance Sessions dismantles EPA chief for 'stunning' ignorance McCarthy unable to cite evidence of climate change Published: 1 day ago http://www.wnd.com/files/2014/07/cchumley_avatar.jpg author-image Cheryl Chumley Cheryl K. Chumley is a full-time reporter for WND and author of "Police State USA: How Orwell's Nightmare is Becoming our Reality." Formerly with the Washington Times, she is a journalism fellow with The Phillips Foundation in Washington, D.C., where she spent a year researching and writing about private property rights. http://www.wnd.com/wp-content/themes/worldnet-theme/_/images//feed.png http://www.wnd.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-print/images/print.png http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/03/mccarthy.png Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., went head-to-head with Environmental Protection Agency’s Gina McCarthy during a recent congressional hearing on climate change, ultimately telling the federal bureaucrat: It’s unbelievable you can’t guarantee if models have been accurate. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing started tamely enough, with Sessions questioning the EPA’s request for a budget increase of 6 percent. “I mean, where does the money come from?” he asked, a YouTube video of the exchange showed. Sessions then raised the point that plenty of his constituents complain about the EPA’s “extraordinary overreach” and that he’d like McCarthy to address statistics on droughts, hurricanes and other weather events cited as evidence of climate change. “I’m not inclined to increase your funding,” he said. “So now you say we’ve got a crisis and a danger out there. … [Yet a scientist found] we’ve had fewer droughts in recent years. Do you dispute that?” But McCarthy couldn’t specify, AL.com reported. “I don’t know in what context [a scientist] is in making statements like that,” she said. An obviously frustrated Sessions jumped in and said, “Well, you need to know because you’re asking this economy to sustain tremendous costs,” the video showed. McCarthy gave similar shoulder shrugs to other weather-related questions. On hurricanes, McCarthy said: “I cannot answer that question. It’s a very complicated issue,” AL.com reported. And on temperature, she said: “I do not know what the [temperature] models actually are predicting that you are referring to.” Sessions ultimately asked: “Is the temperature increasing less than [models predict] or more than that?” McCarthy’s reply? “I cannot answer that,” the video showed. Sessions was shocked. “This is a stunning development, that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency – who should know more than anybody else in the world, who is imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in cost to prevent this climate temperature increase – doesn’t know whether their projections have been right or wrong,” Sessions said, AL.com reported. Read more at www.wnd.com/2015/03/sessi...ance/#XMul8J4FidXZbse9.99 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4.
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I thought the epa was great, to protect the precious environment from evil polluters? That's what "conservative" hero pat buchanan says whenever he proudly defends nixons establishment of the epa
At the time, it probably seemed like a good idea. The rivers were in bad shape as I recall. But like ALL gubmint, the bureaucrats all become tyrants, and its agencies become an unregulated Fedzilla.
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