EPA Chief assures Congress: We ‘could’ fire an employee for wrongdoing ‘a little short of’ murder
Congressman Mick Mulvaney asks Deputy EPA Administrator Stanley Meiburg, “What does it take to get fired from the EPA? What do you have to do? Do I have to kill somebody, or is it a little short of that?” Administrator Meiburg responds, “Uh, it could be a little short of that, yes.”
CONGRESSMAN MULVANEY: “Maybe my question is this. In my last minute, give me a couple of examples. What does it take to get fired from the EPA? What do you have to do? Do I have to kill somebody, or is it a little short of that?”
DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR MEIBURG: “Uh, it could be a little short of that, yes. There are cases where we’ve done terminations. In my experience I’ve done terminations, and the kinds of behaviors that are involved are pretty unpleasant and not the kinds of things you would certainly ever want an employee engaged in…”
Examining Employee Misconduct at EPA
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
May 18, 2016…
Trump Vows To Nix Paris Climate Treaty
…EPA Chief: ‘Climate deniers are not about’ science, they’re just selfish about ‘the solutions’
Speaking at Planet Forward 2016, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says that climate change is “impacting public health” and “every human being on the face of this Earth”. McCarthy says that ‘Climate deniers are not about a lack of data. They’re deniers as to whether or not the solutions, once you recognize the problem, are going to be to their advantage or not.”
ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “…if you think that climate change isn’t impacting public health then you have to open your eyes and take a closer look because the data is there, the understanding is there. And, so while EPA struggles to bring good quality air to everybody, safe drinking water, healthy safe places for kids to live and work, we also have to recognize that an unstable climate is impacting every human being on the face of this Earth, and if we do not do something, you are the very people whose future is being robbed and taken from you.” […]
FRANK SESNO: “How about more science in our leaders? How about more data?”
ADMINISTRATOR MCCARTHY: “You know I don’t know if it’s more data or forcing people to look at the data. I mean really. Climate deniers are not about a lack of data. They’re deniers as to whether or not the solutions, once you recognize the problem, are going to be to their advantage or not.”
Planet Forward 2016
April 21, 2016…
EPA employee racks up ‘$22,000 in international roaming charges while vacationing… abroad’
Examining Employee Misconduct at EPA
House Oversight and Government Reform
May 18, 2016…
EPA ‘freak of a pervert’ employee impersonated an officer; paid $55,000 to resign
Testifying before Congress, EPA Inspector General Patrick Sullivan tells how EPA paid $55,000 to an employee to resign after being caught impersonating a police officer while also being a registered sex offender. He had previously been convicted of child molestation.
Examining Employee Misconduct at EPA
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
May 18, 2016…
Warmists panic: ‘Trump’s Energy Adviser Is Dangerously Anti-Environment’
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/trumps-energy-adviser-is-dangerously-anti-environment-kevin-cramer
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has elected a climate science denying, pro-oil and gas, anti-EPA congressman to head up his energy policy initiative.
Fossil fuel advocate Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) has been dangerously portrayed as the lesser of two evils when held up against Trump’s staunch anti-climate change beliefs. In recent media reports, the North Dakota congressman is overwhelmingly referred to as a mere climate “skeptic,” and was credited with persuading the billionaire candidate to consider embracing carbon cuts and a working partnership between Congress and scientists.
Rep. Cramer has a long history of voting against environmental measures that would enforce stricter regulations on natural resource extraction and fossil fuel emissions. The congressman currently serves on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and has been a leading voice in the opposition against President Barack Obama’s monumental climate change legislation, the Clean Power Plan.
In the last three years, Rep. Cramer has voted to pass 97 bills and amendments that the League of Conservation Voters considers “anti-environment” policies.…
Study: ‘Consensus messaging’ doesn’t work – 97% claims of consensus do not lead to ‘support for action’
…Flashback 2007: ClimateCam is watching you!
A huge electronic billboard in the city square telling residents exactly how much greenhouse gas they have produced in the past hour. Sounds a little futuristic? Not if you live in Newcastle.
ClimateCam, the world’s first greenhouse gas speedometer, displays electricity consumption information collected from the 15 substations that supply homes and businesses in the Newcastle local government area. The council now believes Newcastle has been established as an international testing ground for climate solutions.
“We realise that the climate change issue is just so big and we are so, in Australia, far behind the rest of the world that we need to move very, very quickly if we’re going to catch up and have access to the huge economic opportunity that we foresee is coming with the implementation of climate solutions,” city energy and resource manager of Newcastle City Council, Peter Dormand says.
Sydney Morning Herald, 24 Oct 2007…